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Epitalamio per Ruricio e Iberia / Sidonio Apollinaire ; edizione, traduzione e commento a cura di Stefania Filosini.

Title
Epitalamio per Ruricio e Iberia / Sidonio Apollinaire ; edizione, traduzione e commento a cura di Stefania Filosini.
Author
Sidonius Apollinaris, Saint, 431 or 432-approximately 487,
Publication
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols [2014]

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Additional Authors
  • Filosini, Stefania,
  • Sidonius Apollinaris, Saint, 431 or 432-approximately 487.
Description
279 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
About the mid-Fifties of 5th century AD, the Gallo-Roman aristocrat and gifted poet Sidonius Apollinaris composed an epithalamium to celebrate the marriage of his noble friends Ruricius and Hiberia. Sidonius did not know that in less than two decades he would become the bishop of Clermont-Ferrand, nor could Ruricius imagine that he would die the bishop of Limoges. Clinging to their profane models mostly represented by the epithalamia written by Statius and Claudian, the poem (carm. 11) and its preface (carm. 10) depict a world where the overwhelming presence of myth helps to keep reality aside and the skilled devices of a sophisticated poetry try to revive the formal perfection of Roman classics and their values. This volume provides a general introduction, a critical text with Italian translation, a punctual commentary (in fact the first one) to the Epithalamium and its preface, and a summary in English; it shows the original contribution of Sidonius to the literary tradition of late Latin Epithalamia; it illustrates the techniques of the poet; it deals with the many exegetic problems presented by both poems and it proposes new solutions for some of them.--
Series Statement
Studi e Testi Tardoantichi (STTA) = Profane and Christian culture in Late Antiquity ; 12
Uniform Title
Studi e testi tardoantichi ; 12.
Subject
  • Sidonius Apollinaris, Saint, 431 or 432-approximately 487. > Criticism and interpretation
  • Sidonius Apollinaris, Saint, 431 or 432-approximately 487. > Translations into Italian
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Translations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and indexes.
Language (note)
  • Latin with facing Italian translation; introduction and commentary in Italian; summary in English.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9782503552712
  • 2503552714
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library