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Clemens Ianicius’ Art of the Recusatio

Summary/Abstract: Rhetorical strategy called the recusatio, starting from the rejection of the epic in the Hellenistic period, developedin diverse ways in Roman poetry (Tibullus, Vergil, Horace, Martial and others). It was often connectedwith the poet’s declaration of his literary interest, hierarchy or program. The author’s aim is to confront thesetopoi with Clemens Ianicius’ realization of this strategy in three elegies: Tristia III (Excusat Petro Cmitae, ViroIllustri, Patrono suo, silentium suum Patavinum…), Variae elegiae VI (Verecunde a Petro Cmita petit, ut eiad Italica studia subsidio sit) and Variae elegiae XI (A Franciscano quodam rogatus, ut in Scotum quiddamscriberet, se illi excusat).

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