TY - CHAP
T1 - LUCAN AT LAST
T2 - HISTORY, EPIC, AND DANTE’S COMMEDIA
AU - Marchesi, Simone
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This chapter discusses the role that Lucan’s epic, understood as a peculiarly historical poem, played in helping Dante to conceptualize and construct a sense of historicity for his own narrative in the Comedy. Relying on Lucan’s historical paradoxes, Dante understands with irony Rome’s imperial mission: from the puzzling dedication of the poem to Nero, to the ambivalent treatment of Julius Caesar, to the history-transcending character of Cato, one of Dante’s scandalously saved pre-Christian men of Rome.
AB - This chapter discusses the role that Lucan’s epic, understood as a peculiarly historical poem, played in helping Dante to conceptualize and construct a sense of historicity for his own narrative in the Comedy. Relying on Lucan’s historical paradoxes, Dante understands with irony Rome’s imperial mission: from the puzzling dedication of the poem to Nero, to the ambivalent treatment of Julius Caesar, to the history-transcending character of Cato, one of Dante’s scandalously saved pre-Christian men of Rome.
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U2 - 10.1163/9789004217096_027
DO - 10.1163/9789004217096_027
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85050273329
T3 - Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
SP - 481
EP - 490
BT - Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
PB - Brill Academic Publishers
ER -