Papers by Alessandro Fusi
Descrizione dei contenuti e dell'evoluzione dei principali generi letterari della letteratura... more Descrizione dei contenuti e dell'evoluzione dei principali generi letterari della letteratura latina in versi, illustrati da esempi particolarmente significativi offerti da brani scelti, tradotti e annotati. Degli autori antologizzati si presentano dettagliati capitoli bio-bigliografic
Descrizione dei contenuti e dell'evoluzione dei principali generi letterari della letteratura... more Descrizione dei contenuti e dell'evoluzione dei principali generi letterari della letteratura latina in prosa, illustrati da esempi particolarmente significativi offerti da brani scelti, tradotti e annotati. Degli autori antologizzati si presentano dettagliati capitoli bio-bigliografic
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One of the most scandalous verses of Martial, devoted to the description of a feminine sexual int... more One of the most scandalous verses of Martial, devoted to the description of a feminine sexual intercourse (1.90.7 inter se geminos audes committere cunnos) show very close and unexpected resemblance to one of Alcimus Avitus’ De spiritalis historiae gestis (carm. 4.499 inter se tumidos gaudet conmittere fluctus). This paper presents and discusses the hypotesis that both authors imitate a very solemn, archaic model, namely that of Ennius’ Annales.
Res Publica Litterarum, 2015
Maia Rivista Di Letterature Classiche, 2014
Res Publica Litterarum, 2002
Res Publica Litterarum, 2001
Martial et l'épigramme satirique. Approches stylistiques et tematiques, èdité par D. Vallat, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, Olms, 2020
This study examines the structural function of the marriage-divorce theme in the second edition o... more This study examines the structural function of the marriage-divorce theme in the second edition of Martial's book 10, which is built around the poet's decision to move back to Spain, leaving his beloved domina Rome after more than thirty years. The paper, in the wake of recent works on intratextuality and especially on the structure of Martial's books, takes into exam the book's epigrams devoted to the marriage-divorce theme, declined in satiric as well as serious way, with the aim of enlightening links between texts, which the poet sets up to increase the book's compactness and to enrich at the same time individual poems with further meaning, inside a sophisticated texture that he presents to his generic lectors, real authors of his lasting fame.
Sistemi educativi e politiche culturali dal mondo antico al contemporaneo. Studi offerti a Gabriella Ciampi, 2019
In 1.35 Martial deals with the crucial theme of the relationship between epigram and obscenity, r... more In 1.35 Martial deals with the crucial theme of the relationship between epigram and obscenity, relating to Catullus (c. 16), who is from his first book mentioned by the epigrammatist as his main model. The epigram’s addressee, Cornelius, who complains about the impossibility to read at school Martial’s poems, could be a teacher. This hypothesis would allow to see in the original metaphor of the libelli’s castration a real censorship’s intervention, suggested or already carried out, like the one witnessed by the carolingian manuscripts of the poet.
Lexis, 2019
Nil intemptatum linquere. Sull’origine di un’espressione poetica (con qualche osservazione sul te... more Nil intemptatum linquere. Sull’origine di un’espressione poetica (con qualche osservazione sul testo di Verg. Aen. 8.205 s.)
Martial 2.14.1 nil intemptatum Selius, nil linquit inausum is a grandiose hexameter, which presents three forms not elsewhere attested in the epigrammatist’s corpus (intemptatum, linquit, inausum). Critics consider the verse as a combination of two augustean intertexts (Hor. ars 285 nil intemptatum + Verg. Aen. 7.308 nil linquere inausum). This centonary way of quotation however doesn’t conform to Martial’s intertextual practice. In this paper is put forward the hypothesis that both Hor. ars 285 and Mart. 2.14.1 descend from Ennius’ Annals. It is then discussed the transmitted text at Verg. Aen. 8.206. There intemptatum, variant reading discarded by editors for intractatum, which has stronger manuscript support and looks difficilior, is worthy of a reconsideration in the light of a linguistic-stylistic analysis and of the possible Ennian origin of the expression.
Lexis 37, 2019
In his Historiae adversus paganos Orosius records the episode of the Vestal Minucia who was burie... more In his Historiae adversus paganos Orosius records the episode of the Vestal Minucia who was buried alive in 337 B.C. after committing incestum (hist. 3, 9, 5). In ms. Sangallensis 621 of Orosius the St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV (XI sec.) added as an interlinear gloss to that passage (f. 108) a verse of Ennius’ Annales, not elsewhere known (ann. 158 Sk.), and the overwritten words (in campo qui nunc sceleratus vocatur) can be read as an almost complete hexameter. In this paper I suggest that at hist. 3.9.5 Orosius is quoting an otherwise unknown verse of Ennius’ Annales concerning the same episode of Minucia, much in the same way he does elsewhere when quoting Vergilian verses or expressions without stating their origin.
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Papers by Alessandro Fusi
Martial 2.14.1 nil intemptatum Selius, nil linquit inausum is a grandiose hexameter, which presents three forms not elsewhere attested in the epigrammatist’s corpus (intemptatum, linquit, inausum). Critics consider the verse as a combination of two augustean intertexts (Hor. ars 285 nil intemptatum + Verg. Aen. 7.308 nil linquere inausum). This centonary way of quotation however doesn’t conform to Martial’s intertextual practice. In this paper is put forward the hypothesis that both Hor. ars 285 and Mart. 2.14.1 descend from Ennius’ Annals. It is then discussed the transmitted text at Verg. Aen. 8.206. There intemptatum, variant reading discarded by editors for intractatum, which has stronger manuscript support and looks difficilior, is worthy of a reconsideration in the light of a linguistic-stylistic analysis and of the possible Ennian origin of the expression.
Martial 2.14.1 nil intemptatum Selius, nil linquit inausum is a grandiose hexameter, which presents three forms not elsewhere attested in the epigrammatist’s corpus (intemptatum, linquit, inausum). Critics consider the verse as a combination of two augustean intertexts (Hor. ars 285 nil intemptatum + Verg. Aen. 7.308 nil linquere inausum). This centonary way of quotation however doesn’t conform to Martial’s intertextual practice. In this paper is put forward the hypothesis that both Hor. ars 285 and Mart. 2.14.1 descend from Ennius’ Annals. It is then discussed the transmitted text at Verg. Aen. 8.206. There intemptatum, variant reading discarded by editors for intractatum, which has stronger manuscript support and looks difficilior, is worthy of a reconsideration in the light of a linguistic-stylistic analysis and of the possible Ennian origin of the expression.