Latin lyric poetry
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Recent papers in Latin lyric poetry
Analysis of the friendship language in Catullus Carm. 50.
La prononciation du vers latin. Problèmes théoriques. cf. "Isaac Vossius, Gottfried Hermann et l'ictus vocal" in RhM.
Textual criticism of passages in the three Latin odes of Garcilaso de la Vega.
A new English version of Horace Ode 1.38 is presented, along with some commentary.
The kid sacrificed to the fons Bandusiae (C. 3.13) has long been taken as an analogue for Horace's Callimachean program. This paper suggests that the kid more properly reflects the poetics of Alcaeus and reconsiders the sacrifice in... more
„Ipsa novitiate ac varietate delectat”. The Semantic Uncertainty in Antiquity and Its Usage in Virgil The aim of this work is a general review of ancient Greek and Roman philosophical, rhetorical, eristical and literary theoretical views... more
A discussion of Horace's striking comparison, splendidior vitro (C. 3.13.1), as an allusion to Callimachus' Hecale fr. 18.2.
In un suo rinomato carme, Catullo, per illustrare la fine del suo amore, introduce la similitudine di un fiore reciso da un aratro (XI 22-24). È questo, io credo il primo esempio nella letteratura latina della patetica immagine del... more
L’analisi del carme 68, 41-160 (o 68 a o 68 b, a seconda delle edizioni) è condotta su due piani: da un canto quella della struttura d’insieme del carme, che è appunto concentrica, secondo gli argomenti del ringraziamento all’amico;... more
In the Etruscan catalogue of Aeneid 10, Vergil addresses the Ligurian leaders and describes the mythical transformation of their ancestor Cycnus into a swan (A. 10.185–93). This paper explores the ways in which this ‘Ligurian digression’... more
L’analisi del carme 68, 41-160 (o 68 a o 68 b, a seconda delle edizioni) è condotta su due piani: da un canto quella della struttura d’insieme del carme, che è appunto concentrica, secondo gli argomenti del ringraziamento all’amico;... more
Localización: Humanitas: revista de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Jaén, ISSN 1695-8713, Nº. 5, 2007-2008 (Ejemplar dedicado a: El multiculturalismo en las Humanidades), págs. 11-17
Critical discussions of Hor. Carm. I, 36 are rare, and fail adequately to consider two important points. First, although written in honour of the otherwise unknown Numida, the poem’s implied addressee is L. Aelius Lamia,( ) a member of a... more
Desde principios del siglo XX, muchos han sido los estudiosos que han centrado sus investigaciones en torno a la relación entre la producción lírica de ascendencia religiosa y el corpus de los trovadores. Las primeras contribuciones a... more
Chapter in "Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin", ed. Stefan Tilg and Sarah Knight (OUP, 2015)
The name ‘Chloe’ appears four times in Horace's Odes, once in Book 1 (1.23) and three times in Book 3 (3.7, 3.9, 3.26). Whether the ‘Chloes’ represent a woman or women from Horace's real life is probably not something we could... more
This paper deals with Horace's Carmen Saeculare, which, due to the unique circumstances of its performance, differs from his other lyric poems in a variety of ways in terms of poetic style.
A study of the manuscript tradition of a short Latin poem, incipit: Purpura cum bisso, which is preserved in a number of thirteenth-century manuscripts.