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Document Details : Title: Exul in Urbe Subtitle: Novidio Fracco's De Adversis, Ovid's Tristia, and the Sack of Rome Author(s): BRUBAKER, Evan Journal: Humanistica Lovaniensia Volume: 71 Issue: 2 Date: 2022 Pages: 269-301 DOI: 10.2143/HLO.71.2.3292322 Abstract : Among those works which emerged after the 1527 Sack of Rome, the De Adversis of the Latin poet Ambrogio 'Novidio' Fracco occupies a unique position. Comprising five elegiac books in MS, the poem offers an episodic view of the Sack which interweaves Fracco’s biographical experiences with key historical moments. The most distinct quality of the collection, however, is that it is modelled on Ovid’s Tristia. In this article I demonstrate how Fracco recreates Ovid’s exile in Tomis by drawing upon his own experiences during the Sack. I first consider Fracco's repurposing of Ovid's ethnographic material, with which he recreates the environment and barbarians of Tomis in Rome. I then analyze a lengthy self-comparison between Fracco and Ovid, itself modelled on the latter's comparison with Ulysses in Tristia 1.5. I close with an examination of De Adversis 5.1, an imagined German triumph which completely inverts that of Tiberius in Tristia 4.2. |
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