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Document Details : Title: Basinio da Parma's Hesperis Subtitle: A Homeric-Vergilian Fusion in Text and Paratext Author(s): SMETS, Simon Journal: Humanistica Lovaniensia Volume: 71 Issue: 2 Date: 2022 Pages: 147-180 DOI: 10.2143/HLO.71.2.3292319 Abstract : Basinio da Parma’s Neo-Latin epic Hesperis combines two main intertexts: Vergil’s Aeneid and the Homeric epics. This article argues that Basinio highlighted the tensions arising from this combination of models through the poem’s paratextual features. The article focuses on the title’s implications, on the considerable rewriting of the proem in Basinio’s autograph version, and, finally, on the author’s marginal annotations in the same manuscript. The conclusion is that rather than merely promoting his knowledge of Greek, as previous scholars have argued, Basinio’s paratexts highlight on a meta-poetical level the difficulties of combining two closely related, but conflicting literary models. |
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