Fascione, Mondin on Horatian Metres

Sara Fascione contributes ‘Secundum regulas Flacci. Orazio e il ritorno alla metrica nell’epistolario di Sidonio Apollinare’ to Concetta Longobardi (ed.), Horatiana. La ricezione di Orazio dall’antichità al mondo moderno: le forme liriche, Pisa: ETS, 2022, 91-103. In the same edited…

Santelia on the “Theta” of Criticism

Stefania Santelia has contributed with ‘Il θ e la condanna del critico: Orazio ars 446-447 e Sidonio Apollinare carm. 9, 332-335′ to the Festschrift for Marisa Squillante, DISSONA NEXIO. Rotte del sapere, tra storia e futuro per Marisa Squillante, edited…

An Unexpected Twist

Today, on the occasion of Sidonius’ death on a 21/23rd August some 1,540 years ago, a striking piece of literary reception giving an unexpected twist to the famous Carmen 12 on the impossibility of writing poetry among the barbarians. Playwright…