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Dal tramonto all’alba di una civiltà letteraria

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Abstract

Some thoughts on the cultural transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Romano-barbarian kingdoms of Italy and Gaul. A brief comparison is also made between the biographies of three Gallo-Roman writers (Ausonius, Sidonius Apollinaris and Venantius Fortunatus) separated by a century from one another, with a simple example of detection of intertextual relationship in a passage of Fortunatus’s poetic Life of Martin (1.68-9).


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Submitted: June 19, 2025 | Accepted: Sept. 25, 2025 | Published Jan. 21, 2026 | Language: it

Keywords Ostrogothic Italy and Merovingian Gaul • Sidonius Apollinaris • Late Latin poetry • Ausonius • Venantius Fortunatus

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