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Lucan was one of the most widely read and studied classical authors during the Middle Ages, a reference point for teaching, historiography and literature. The essay attempts to outline Giovanni Boccaccio’s profile as a reader of Pharsalia in the different ages of his literary production and in his c...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-561752022-06-02T03:23:16Z Chapter «A’ quai Lucan seguitava». Su Boccaccio lettore della Pharsalia Gensini, Niccolò Lucan Pharsalia poetry reception of classical texts Lucan was one of the most widely read and studied classical authors during the Middle Ages, a reference point for teaching, historiography and literature. The essay attempts to outline Giovanni Boccaccio’s profile as a reader of Pharsalia in the different ages of his literary production and in his critical judgment, placing him in the context of fourteenth-century reception. The different ways of reading Lucan’s masterpiece, from the almost literal imitation of some scenes in the Filocolo, to the punctual references to situations, images and characters in the works of maturity, testifies the inexhaustible attention of Boccaccio towards the poet of «plus quam civilia bella». 2022-06-01T12:15:37Z 2022-06-01T12:15:37Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855182362_358 2704-5919 9788855182362 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56175 ita Studi e saggi application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 15731.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-236-2_6 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2.06 10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2.06 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855182362 219 22 Florence open access
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description Lucan was one of the most widely read and studied classical authors during the Middle Ages, a reference point for teaching, historiography and literature. The essay attempts to outline Giovanni Boccaccio’s profile as a reader of Pharsalia in the different ages of his literary production and in his critical judgment, placing him in the context of fourteenth-century reception. The different ways of reading Lucan’s masterpiece, from the almost literal imitation of some scenes in the Filocolo, to the punctual references to situations, images and characters in the works of maturity, testifies the inexhaustible attention of Boccaccio towards the poet of «plus quam civilia bella».
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