Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to Petrarch

Responding to a Versatile Muse
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42168-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts

The Latin poet Ovid continues to fascinate readers today. In Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to Petrarch, Julie Van Peteghem examines what drew medieval Italian writers to the Latin poet’s works, characters, and themes. While accounts of Ovid’s influence in Italy often start with Dante’s Divine Comedy, this book shows that mentions of Ovid are found in some of the earliest poems written in Italian, and remain a constant feature of Italian poetry over time. By situating the poetry of the Sicilians, Dante, Cino da Pistoia, and Petrarch within the rich and diverse history of reading, translating, and adapting Ovid’s works, Van Peteghem offers a novel account of the reception of Ovid in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peteghem, Julie van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

List of Figures and Tables

Part 1: Writers as Readers

Introduction: “Ovid, the philosopher who wrote books about love”

1 Ovidius — Ovidi — Ovide — Ovidio: a History of Reading Ovid in the Due- and Trecento

1.1 Reading Ovid: the Material and Cultural Contexts

1.2 The Italian Readers of Ovid Turned Writers

1.3 Beyond Intertextuality? How to Think about Ovid’s Influence

Part 2: Readers as Writers

2 Examples (Not) to Follow: the First Italian Ovidian Poems and Their Occitan Models

2.1 Better and More: Ovidian Similes in Vernacular Poetry

2.2 Ovid’s Book that Does Not Lie (to Troubadours)

2.3 Reading and Discussing Ovidio

2.4 Conclusion

3 Something Old, Something New: Dante, Cino da Pistoia, and Ovid

3.1 “Per Ovidio parla Amore”: First, the Vita nuova

3.2 Dante’s petrose: Testing Out New Techniques

3.3 Cino da Pistoia, Dante, and Ovid on Love, Myth, and Exile

3.4 Conclusion

4 Ovid in Dante’s Commedia

4.1 In Search of Dante’s (Copy of) Ovid

4.2 Dante’s Ovidius: Close Readings of the Latin Text

4.3 Dante’s Ovidio: The Vernacular Roots of Dante’s Reading of Ovid

4.4 Conclusion

5 Petrarch’s Scattered Ovidian Verses

5.1 Petrarch’s Ovid Found

5.2 Just Like Apollo, Just Like Daphne: Similes and Identification

5.3 Metamorphosis as a Narrative Principle

5.4 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julie Van Peteghem, Ph.D. (2013), Columbia University, is Assistant Professor of Italian at Hunter College, CUNY. She studies and teaches medieval Italian literature, the reception of the classics, and reading practices in the Middle Ages and in the digital age.