Filologie medievali e moderne

Collana | Filologie medievali e moderne
Recensione | Tradurre: un viaggio nel tempo
Capitolo | Miti e metamorfosi

Miti e metamorfosi

Ovidio nella riscrittura di Albrecht von Halberstadt

Abstract

The reworking of Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Albrecht von Halberstadt, dating back to the end of the twelfth century, survives only in few Fragments. In this essay, I will analyse Fragment B, which contains tales from Book XI of the Metamorphoses, in order to assess Albrecht’s rewriting techniques, and his simplification of both matter and style. Indeed, Albrecht employs the middle style, while his Latin source was written in a rhetorical and elevated style. Albrecht’s Fragments will be compared with the Ovidian source and with the Eneit of Heinrich von Veldeke, highlighting the features shared by the two rewritings of classical texts, which were both commissioned by the Landgrave Hermann of Thuringia.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 17 Gennaio 2018 | Accettato: 19 Febbraio 2018 | Pubblicato 24 Maggio 2018 | Lingua: it

Keywords Ovid’s MetamorphosesRewritingMedieval German LiteratureHermann of ThuringiaAlbrecht von Halberstadt


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