Ettore Romagnoli’s Horace in Black Orbace

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_12553
dc.title	Ettore Romagnoli’s Horace in Black Orbace. Rereading – with Digressions - the Bimillennial Conference
dc.contributor.author	Sconza Federica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/lexis-journal/2023/1/lorazio-in-orbace-nero-di-ettore-romagnoli/
dc.description.abstract	The paper investigates the Fascist exploitation of Horatian poetry by analysing the speech held by Ettore Romagnoli in 1935 on the bimillenary of the poet’s birth. Romagnoli’s oration must sacrifice to the demands of the oriented reading of Horace’s work promoted by the regime themes and attitudes characteristic of the poet (the reflections on time and the precariousness of human life, the search for self-sufficiency and aurea mediocritas, the rejection of dogmatism). Instead, the intellectual who moves from a secluded position to full adherence to the new Augustan establishment is exalted, at the cost of historical and literary distortions.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis
dc.relation.ispartof	Num. 41 (n.s.) - Giugno 2023 - Fasc. 1
dc.issued	2023-08-04
dc.dateAccepted	2023-04-13
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-03-22
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-1564
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Lexis/2724-1564/2023/01/009
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Aesthetic of reception
dc.subject	Ettore Romagnoli
dc.subject	Fascism
dc.subject	History of classical philology
dc.subject	Horace

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Rereading – with Digressions - the Bimillennial Conference

Federica Sconza Università della Calabria

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The paper investigates the Fascist exploitation of Horatian poetry by analysing the speech held by Ettore Romagnoli in 1935 on the bimillenary of the poet’s birth. Romagnoli’s oration must sacrifice to the demands of the oriented reading of Horace’s work promoted by the regime themes and attitudes characteristic of the poet (the reflections on time and the precariousness of human life, the search for self-sufficiency and aurea mediocritas, the rejection of dogmatism). Instead, the intellectual who moves from a secluded position to full adherence to the new Augustan establishment is exalted, at the cost of historical and literary distortions.

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Aug. 4, 2023

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April 13, 2023

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March 22, 2023

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Keywords: Aesthetic of reception • Ettore Romagnoli • Fascism • History of classical philology • Horace

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