Smets, Simon;
(2023)
Basinio da Parma’s Hesperis. A Homeric–Vergilian Fusion in Text and Paratext.
Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin studies
, 71
(2)
pp. 147-180.
10.30986/2022.147.
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Abstract
Basinio da Parma’s Neo-Latin epic Hesperis combines two main intertexts: Vergil’s Aeneid and the Homeric epics. This article argues that Basinio high-lighted the tensions arising from this combination of models through the poem’s paratextual features. The article focuses on the title’s implications, on the considerable rewriting of the proem in Basinio’s autograph version, and, finally, on the author’s marginal annotations in the same manuscript. The conclusion is that rather than merely promoting his knowledge of Greek, as previous scholars have argued, Basinio’s paratexts highlight on a meta-poetical level the difficulties of combining two closely related, but conflicting literary models.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Basinio da Parma’s Hesperis. A Homeric–Vergilian Fusion in Text and Paratext |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.30986/2022.147 |
| Publisher version: | http://humanistica.be/index.php/humanistica/articl... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172430 |
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