Ovid in the Early Latin Literary Historiography
Ovid in the Early Latin Literary Historiography

Summary/Abstract: During the Italian Humanism (XV century) scholars tried organically to arrange all the scattered information on life and on works of Latin writers, starting a specific “genre”, i.e. literary historiography. There were significant challenges for this attempt, as many works of Latin authors had been just rediscovered and so humanists had known them only recently. However this attempt, although only partly successful, was very valuable to us as it laid the foundations of the following development of literary historiography. This work aims at studying the introduction of Ovid’s figure and work of during his exile in some literary history treatments of the humanistic and Renaissance era.

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