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21Te veniente die, te decedente canebat: il τόπος del mattino e della sera tra neoterismo e poesia augusteaPhilologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 163 (1): 129-144. 2019.The reference to the rising and setting of the sun to indicate the unceasing duration of an action becomes a τόπος in Latin poetry from an influential distich of Cinna onwards, which was reworked a number of times in Augustan poetry. As well as Vergil and Horace, who adapt the model to different genres and occasions, the treatment of it by the elegists is interesting, in whom the two terms that define East and West are set in relation to the eternity of poetic renown. This transformation may go …Read more
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12L' ecl. 1 E l' ecl. 10 di Virgilio: Considerazioni su un rapporto complessoPhilologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 157 (1): 94-110. 2013.A comparison between ecl. 1 and ecl. 10 shows not only the deep differences of the new Virgilian pastoral poetry from Theocritus’ bucolic, but confirms that even Virgil lacked confidence in the power of poetry to solace real sorrow, an idea maintained throughout the whole Bucolicon liber. Interesting analogies between the first and the last eclogue help furthermore to explain Virgil’s farewell to his bucolic production.
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10Propertius and literary genres - (g.) bonamente, (r.) cristofoli, (c.) santini (edd.) I generi letterari in properzio: Modelli E fortuna. Proceedings of the twenty-second international conference on propertius. Assisi–spello, 24–27 may 2018. (Studi di poesia latina 22.) pp. 402. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. Paper, €95. Isbn: 978-2-503-58926-8 (review)The Classical Review 72 (2): 525-528. 2022.
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8Non haec Calliope, non haec mihi cantat Apollo: Prop. 2,1 e il papiro di GalloHermes 145 (2): 159-173. 2017.In Prop. 2, 1, 3-4 a reply to the verses 6-7 of Gallus can be recognized: in the Propertian text the poetic inspiration comes to the love elegist not from the Muses, but from the puella. The polemical attitude of Propertius towards Gallus is not only here, but also at 2, 13, on the theme of the domina iudex. Ovid will follow Propertius in making the puella the only inspiration for his poetry.
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8Caligantem nigra formidine lucum: Verg. georg. 4.468, la stele di Philae e un’annotazione degli Scholia BernensiaPhilologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 166 (2): 194-209. 2022.The notice in the Scholia Bernensia about Vergil, Georgics 4.468 that links the name of Gallus to the katabasis of Orpheus can be read as a confirmation of the relation between Vergil’s short poem and the elegiac poet’s work. Significant in this sense is the term formido, very elegant as used by Vergil and maybe part of the poetic lexicon of Gallus, as is perhaps suggested by a passage of the Philae stele.
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8Ancora su Gallo e AdoneHermes 149 (3): 326. 2021.The comparison between Prop. 2, 34, 91-92 and Virg. ecl. 10, 18 allows to argue that Gallus treated Adonis in his love elegy and that he used this character as an exemplum, in the same way of his future followers, in particular Propertius and Ovid. It is possible that he imitated Euphor. fr. 43 Pow., and for this reason we can try to reconstruct his relationship with the models and his freedom in in adapting them to the new elegiac poetry.
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7Titulis oppida capta legam: Storia di un ‘τόπος elegiaco’ da Gallo ad OvidioPhilologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 159 (2): 282-300. 2015.Name der Zeitschrift: Philologus Jahrgang: 159 Heft: 2 Seiten: 282-300
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4Le Muse Pierides in Virgilio e in Properzio (e forse in Gallo)Hermes 142 (1): 102-128. 2014.In Virgil’s Eclogues the Muses Pierides are always represented as authors of the poems, like in the Gallus papyrus from Qaṣr Ibrîm. Their presence in passages allusive to the verses of the papyrus and the employ of the epithet by Prop. 2, 10 and 2, 13 in texts rich of references to Gallus suggest that the word Pierides was already in Gallus’ poetry and perhaps in the lacuna at v. 6 of the papyrus.