AL. Rivista di studi di Anthologia Latina

El presente artículo recoge una serie de reflexiones sobre la crítica textual. Defiende una valoración de todas las contribuciones que en ese campo pueda provenir de lectores, traductores y, por supuesto, profesionales de la crítica. Sugiere la creación de instrumentos informáticos que sirvan para una puesta en común de los avances en edición de textos. Incluye un conjunto de enmiendas realizadas por parte del autor a partir de sus lecturas y traducciones a textos de Séneca, Ovidio, la Antología Latina y sobre todo Petrarca (De remediis utriusque fortune).

This article collects a series of reflections on textual criticism. He defends an assessment of all the contributions that may come from readers, translators and, of course, critics in this field. Suggest the creation of computer tools that serve to share advances in text editing. It includes a set of amendments made by the author based on his readings and translations of texts by Seneca, Ovid, the Latin Anthology and, above all, Petrarch (De remediis utriusque fortune).

Questo articolo contiene una serie di riflessioni sulla critica testuale. Difende una valutazione di tutti i contributi che possono venire da lettori, traduttori e, naturalmente, critici in questo campo. Suggerire la creazione di strumenti informatici che servano a condividere i progressi nell’editing del testo. Comprende una serie di modifiche apportate dall’autore sulla base delle sue letture e traduzioni di testi di Seneca, Ovidio, l’Antologia latina e, soprattutto, Petrarca (De remediis utriusque fortune).

Starting from the difficult problem of dating Seneca’s tragedies, the ‘prophecy’ of the sailing Chorus relating to the subjugation of the Ocean in Medea 375 ff. is analysed, placing it in relation to the historical event of Claudius’ invasion of Britain in the year 43. The Laus Caesaris of Anthologia Vossiana is also examined, comparing it with Suetonius’ life of Claudius. In poem 12 of the same anthology, dedicated to the Corduba homeland, the meaning of the word vates is emphasised, as it is useful for establishing chronological relationships between the anthology and the tragedies.

Through a careful examination of the epigrammatic cycle dedicated by Martial to Erotion and retrieving information of a juridical and epigraphic nature, news on the identity of Erotion are provided.

The thematic continuity between Epigr. Bob. 27, centered on the motif of the capricious fate, and Epigr. Bob. 28 is underscored in the titulus by Vaticanus Latinus 2836 and by the first edition of Avanzi (1496), who identifies Epigr. Bob. 28 as the exemplum of the previous epigram. However, such a reading proves to be incorrect for two reasons: because of the different arrangement given to the two compositions by Ugoleto (1499) and Avanzi in the second edition (1507); because of the analysis of the rhetorical τόποι linked with the widespread motif of the use of wealth in the progymnasmatic and declamatory tradition. From the latter, it emerges a broader argumentative core of Epigr. Bob. 28, which thus develops autonomously. It is concluded that the anonymous author aims to underline the good and bad use of wealth with a comparatio per antithesis.

Through an analysis of the Virgilian hypotexts underlying the description of the spouses and an in-depth evaluation of the stylistic and rhetorical devices used in the cento, we arrive at the identification of the identity of the spouses of the Luxorius’ epithalamium.

With reference to v. 30 of Aegritudo Perdicae L.Z. discusses the reading desertusque viro of the codex unicus H, to which Lara Nicolini recently preferred the correction of Baehrens desectus virum, taking up and updating the reasons already expressed in a contribution which appeared two years before the Teubner edition of the poem and ignored by L.N. A lesson in method and humility.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the text and the hermeneutic strategies of a poetic riddle from the Aenigmata Bernensia – a corpus of poetic riddles composed by an anonimous author (VII-VIII century A.D.) – which involves a mysterious ‘catabasis’: even if the solution is revealed already in the title (De grano), it is possible to find further allusions to other famous mythical catabasis as well as christian symbologies which could allow us to discover other potential hidden solutions to the riddle.

The short paper shows some wordplays in two Martial’s epigrams from books 8 and 10. This is an opportunity to hint, through the route of the acrostic and other technopaegnia, at Martial’s relationship with the Virgilian model and with the epigrams attributed to Seneca of Anthologia Vossiana.

Using the support of paleography in examining the mechanisms of chain errors present in the second part of the verse, and above all through a reasonable exegesis of the text, the correction of the corrupt v. 202 of Aegritudo Perdicae is provided.

The four couplets of the poem 785c Riese, prefaced to the De trinitate of Saint Augustine, are corrected and published by L.Z., with particular attention to the vv. 5-6, taking advantage of the lesson of a manuscript (Beinecke 336) not yet appropriately read by the editors of the poem. In the same paper Daniele Ceccarani also provides a poetic translation in Italian of the poem itself with a note accompanying the translation.

The paper focuses on the Pervigilium Veneris as it was anthologized by Giovanni Pascoli in Lyra. Pascoli’s selection of the verses and his explanatory notes are taken into consideration, as well as the inspiration provided by the Pervigilium Veneris for the composition of one of his Latin poems.

The article-review proposes a different distribution of the material included in the recently published dictionary of literary epigram in Greek and Roman Antiquity and provides two research ideas about Gallus and Persius’ Choliambi.