All\u2019ombra dei grandi libri: la selva Andes di Pietro Marso

"Andes Virgilii natale solum", a silva by the Italian humanist Petrus Marsus, was published in Mantua in 1480. The present paper investigates the role of that text as a turning point from Statius\u2019 concept of the silva to the silvae by Politian; it also shows that the silvae were intended by Politian as an introduction to classical texts, exactly in the way of the first printed editions of classical texts, where these texts were accompanied by other poetic compositions, conceived as an introduction to the classical author

Eros freddo

recensione a Luca Canali, "Virgilio", pp. 160, Bompiani, Milano 200

Un esempio di "deformatio" nelle "Interpretationes Vergilianae" di Tiberio Claudio Donato: la lotta di Priamo contro Pirro

According to Tiberius Claudius Donatus, in the struggle between Pyrrhus and Priamus in the second book of Vergil''s Aeneid the Trojan king causes of his own will the reactions of Achilles'' son, in order to be killed by him. His main weapon is the deformatio of Pyrrhus, a rhetorical device blaming not only Pyrrhus, but Achilles too

Similitudini animali nell'In Eutropium di Claudiano

Similes and poetic language in Claudius Claudianus\u2019 In Eutropiu

«DUCA», «SIGNORE», «MAESTRO» : Virgilio nella "Commedia" di Dante

Quando cita Virgilio, Dante spesso sembra volutamente travisarlo. Non è una caratteristica di Dante, ma un procedimento iniziato dai primi lettori virgiliani e reso tipico dalla scuola, qui illustrato sulla base di tre esempi paradigmatici (Seneca, Tiberio Claudio Donato, Alcuino). When quoting Virgil, Dante often misreads him. However that is not a new thing: so did other writers such as Seneca, Tiberius Claudius Donatus and Alcuin, each in his own way

Staffette esegetiche : Concatenazioni di note fra i lettori tardoantichi a Virgilio

This paper investigates how the exegetical notes can be transmitted and transformed from a commentary to another: the case of Virgi