Lexis Poetica, retorica e comunicazione nella tradizione classica

Rivista | Lexis
Fascicolo | Num. 41 (n.s.) - Giugno 2023 - Fasc. 1
Articolo | L’Orazio in orbace nero di Ettore Romagnoli

L’Orazio in orbace nero di Ettore Romagnoli

Rileggendo – con divagazioni – la conferenza bimillenaria

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.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 22 Marzo 2023 | Accettato: 13 Aprile 2023 | Pubblicato 04 Agosto 2023 | Lingua: it

Keywords Ettore RomagnoliFascismHoraceHistory of classical philologyAesthetic of reception


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