A monograph on Latin and Italian models of Prešeren’s Baptism on the Savica. Key authors: Virgil (Aeneid), Ovid, Lucan (Pharsalia), Augustine (Confessions, City of God), Dante, Petrarch (Secretum, Res seniles), Tasso (Liberation of Jerusalem). The bulk of the book is dedicated to the role the Augustinian doctrine of two cities and of the Platonistic allegory of two Venuses played in the medieval and early modern reception of Virgil’s Aeneid (Petrarch’s Africa and Tasso’s Liberata); Prešeren’s poem is seen as a Romantic, i. e. Schlegelian, contribution to the tradition of “Augustinian epic” (cf. J. Ch. Warner, The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton, Ann Arbor, 2005), with its main hero Črtomir as a “Slavic Aeneas” and with Ajdovski gradec as a miniature version of Virgil’s Troy. The last part of the book is dedicated to mythic paradigms of death by drowning: Palinurus, Ovid’s Sappho, Leander.
COBISS.SI-ID: 259575552
The book investigates the use of mythological motifs in the work of Plotinus, the father of Neoplatonism and founder of the Platonic school in Rome, tracing parallels in the works of Roman Platonists and exploring their impact on the development of the Renaissance Neoplatonism.
COBISS.SI-ID: 258985728
The article investigates Beroaldo's approach to the mythological and theological themes of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. In Beroaldo's commentaries, Antiquity not only coexists with Christianity but actually stimulates it, and their symbiosis is an edifying model proposed by Beroaldo to the audience of his readers and students.
COBISS.SI-ID: 47299170