A BŰBÁJOS VIRGILIUS - A VERGILIUS-ÉLETRAJZOK KALANDOS TORZULÁSAI
The Enchanting Virgilius - The Distortion of Virgil Biographies
Author(s): István BorzsákSubject(s): History, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Ancient World, Philology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Vergilius; biographical literature; trash; enchanting;
Summary/Abstract: We tried to follow up the incredibly rich posterity of Vergilius in the context of the antique biographical literature, more exactly in that of the biographies of writers. As to a modest modern complement to the collection, indispensable even today, by D. Comparetti (Virgilio nel medio evo), we drew attention to a trash of the 19th century (The miraculous story of the enchanting Vergilius), the author of which „enriched” the already otherwise adventurously embellished biography of the poet with further romantic — even foolish! — inventions. Of course, not even this can damage the fame of the divines poeta.
Journal: Antik Tanulmányok
- Issue Year: 47/2003
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 207-214
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Hungarian
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