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L’Orazio in orbace nero di Ettore Romagnoli

Rileggendo – con divagazioni – la conferenza bimillenaria

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.

Pubblicato
04 Agosto 2023
Accettato
13 Aprile 2023
Presentato
22 Marzo 2023
Lingua
IT

Keywords: History of classical philologyEttore RomagnoliHoraceFascismAesthetic of reception

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