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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Macrobius"”.
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(Un)veiling nature : a comparative study of Spenser's poetics in Mutabilitie canto seven
… Spenser is following the poetic expressed in Macrobius' "In Somnium Scipionis." In this work, the initiate of Nature who knows her secrets (that is, who sees Nature unclothed) must, if he wishes to express his knowledge, veil Nature in the garments of allegory and fabulae. Nature's veil …
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Labyrinthum capellae. Le "Annotationes in Marcianum" di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena e la fortuna del neoplatonismo cristiano
… some of his views), Martianus, Calcidius and Macrobius. Other philosophers were not neoplatonic bat believed in the power of the studium: Boethius, Cassiodorus, Isidorus of Seville, Hrabanus Maurus and Lupus of Ferriéres. In order to get an idea of this conception, I finally focused the …
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<i>Quid facit cum evangeliis Maro?</i> The Cultural Background of Sedulius' Intertextual Argument with Vergil in the <i>Paschale carmen</i>
… selections of the <i>Commentaria</i> of Servius, Macrobius’ <i>Saturnalia</i>, the <i>prooemium</i> to the <i>Interpretationes Vergilianae</i> of Tiberius Claudius Donatus, and the <i>Vitae Vergilianae</i> of Aelius Donatus and Phocas, both the openness of Vergilian reception and the pitfalls of …
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The Poet at Work: Concepts of Authorship in the Ancient Reception of Virgil
This thesis explores how Virgil's readers imagined the authorial techniques and biographical persona of Virgil, the most canonical – yet extraordinarily elusive – Latin poet. While ancient biography is often dismissed as transparently fictional, this thesis makes a case for taking biographical …