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    Tertulliano e Isidoro di Siviglia

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    The present study sets out to define to what extent Isidore was familiar with Tertullian’s works. The starting point is the analysis of the manuscript tradition of Carthaginian writings and a reexamination of Tertullian’s memoirs, already dealt with in specific studies, highlighting the textual variants and the value in Isidore’s text. In this perspective it is possible to compose an overview, specifying those Carthaginian writings which were used by the Bishop of Seville and describing the relationship between the medieval corpora which have passed on Tertullian’s works

    The narrative sections of Macarius Magnes' Apocriticus

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    The analysis of the narrative sections of the Macarius Magnes’ Apocriticus highlights the particular accuracy of the Christian replay from a rhetorical point of view, as testified by many classical reminiscences, used to discredit the opponent, and by recourse to the instruments of the polemic between rhetoricians, with the aim of presenting the exuberant eloquence of the heathen ironically. On the whole the study brings out the picture of a very polished author, who does not limit himself to confute the charges of his opponent, but intends to overcome him with the vehemence of his argumentations and the elegance of the style
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