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Non nuocere, aiutare, non offendere. Rileggere il De officiis di Cicerone nel conflitto tra prossimi e lontani
Full text linkCan Cicero’s De officiis be considered as an excuse for justifying and supporting the common
idea that rights, aid and solidarity have been reserved only to those are “close” to us? In the
current debate concerning the real universality and the value of human rights, the interpretation
of the last work of Arpino’s author, framed in its historical and cultural context, may contribute
to a fair restitution of the meaning we assume for the virtue named ratio societatis et
communitatis
Per amore e per interesse. Moventi e modelli dell’azione benefica nella riflessione antica
Full text linkClassical thinkers described sometimes the donor’s move employing some unexpected analogies: Aristotle explains the “benefactor’s love” comparing it to the artist’s love for his artwork, or to the mother’s devotion to her sons. Cicero talks about benivolentia as a permanent and constant affect, very distant from amor adulescentulorum. Seneca, in ben. 1.14, chooses to compare donor’s beneficia amabilia to the behavior of meretrix. The aim of this paper is to recognize the tight bind of love and interest underlying these analogies, and to explain how it could be, after all, a pattern useful for re-thinking the nature of contemporary philanthropy
Fuori luogo. Forme del paesaggio e sguardi che non vedono nel Bellum civile di Lucano
No full textWhat is the connection Lucan establish between landscapes and characters in the Bellum civile? Are the loci in this epic poem anthropologically marked? In other words, are the places and spaces described still capable of representing identity, relationships, and the memory of those who frequent or inhabit them? Are they therefore definable according to the notion of “anthropological place” used to understand traditional societies by Marc Augé? The aim of this paper, in an investigation that is for the moment limited to a few productive passages, is that in his poem Lucan proposes a dissolution of the anthropological value of the landscapes and places described, and that this dissolution is linked to the action of “gazes that do not see”
La ricezione di Orazio nell’età del libro antico. A proposito di Antonio IURILLI, Quinto Orazio Flacco. Annali delle edizioni a stampa secoli XV-XVIII, tomi I-II, Droz, Genève 2017, 1540 pp., ISBN 978-2-600-04730-2.
Full text linkrecensione al volume di di Antonio IURILLI, Quinto Orazio Flacco. Annali delle edizioni a
stampa secoli XV-XVIII, tomi I-II, Droz, Genève 2017, 1540 pp., ISBN 978-2-600-04730-2
Il dilemma tra amore e onore. Reciprocità e modelli etici in Catullo 76 e in Properzio (Elegie 2,23; 2,24A-B-C-)
No full textPoem 76 is probably the most significant text, among Catullan compositions, for investigating the issues of reciprocity-in-love and honour, which dispose the poet’s world. This paper aims to focus the debate between "benefacta" and "gratia", in comparison with some Propertian elegies that seem to propose very different solutions to the same ethical dispute, whether honour is better than love, or not
Togliere la mano dal quadro. Arte, natura e comunicazione della conoscenza in Plinio
Full text linkDoes Pliny’s reflection on the notions of completeness/incompleteness – in relation to the aesthetic judgment on the perfection of artworks – also reveal something about the theoretical approach to be reserved for the knowledge of nature? Does the tension between perfection and imperfection have an impact on the ways Pliny promotes knowledge communication? This paper aims to answer these questions by retracing the paths of a subterranean relationship with Cicero’s De Officiis, a work animated by a similar tension, and explicitly praised in the prefatory letter of Pliny’s encyclopaedia. Secondly, this paper will verify the hypothesis according to which Pliny harbors the idea that incomplete knowledge belongs constitutively to human beings. Evidence of this will be the author’s choice of an omnivorous, classifying, dispersive writing style, yet still capable of expressing the perfect ibility of the cognitive relationship with nature
Un'appartenenza vulnerabile. Il sentimento della storia in Properzio
No full textThe cultural heritage of mythical tales connected to real places in Rome is the core inspiration for the fourth book of Propertian elegies. But which features or attitudes lay the ground for the construction of collective memory? In this paper I will try to focus on how Propertius works on selection and removal of Roman history’s events and characters as early as in the first three books of Elegies: in the Propertian sense of history, the “belonging to” and the “distance from” the social frameworks of memory are re-examined by concepts as betrayal and vulnerability of thick relations tying together citizens, soldiers, friends
Vulnerabilità sulla scena. Temi etici e soluzioni drammaturgiche nella "Medea" di Seneca
Full text linkLa Medea di Seneca racconta una storia di vulnerabilità? Questo saggio propone una lettura
della tragedia usando il concetto di vulnerabilità non come criterio per verificare la correttezza
degli assunti stoici in materia di condotta morale, ma quale paradigma di relazione tra soggetti
che, per definirsi, si consegnano gli uni agli altri, esponendosi, e su tale esposizione mettono
alla prova l’identità personale e la fallibilità dell’autonomia morale. In questa idea di
vulnerabilità non si trova solo una lente per formulare domande di natura etica, ma anche un
utile strumento di analisi del meccanismo drammaturgico senecano.Is Seneca’s Medea a story of vulnerability? This paper aims to read the tragedy through the concept of vulnerability as a relational and intersubjective model. In this perspective, vulnerability can serve not only as review of Stoic issues on moral behaviour, but also as recognition of subjects (and characters) exposed in the self-other relations, whose personal identity, and autonomy, is challenged and wounded. This concept of vulnerability provides a powerful lens for posing ethical questions and for exploring, once again, how Senecan drama works
Sconfinamenti. La strana storia della letteratura in Roma antica
No full textOggetto di questo contributo è l'analisi di come, nella letteratura latina, lo “sconfinamento” rappresenti un principio vitale e virale di rinnovamento, che funziona sul piano delle forme letterarie ma anche delle idee, dei significati, delle proposte etiche e politiche che queste vogliono mettere in circolo
Non ricorrere alla scusa che sei donna. Elvia, la madre di Seneca
No full textParlare di “Roma al femminile” significa assumersi un compito complesso, come interpreti. È necessario individuare, in una letteratura scritta da uomini, quale sia stato il perimetro di azione e di espressione riconosciuto alle donne, in qualche modo incorporato nelle regole della società. Si tratta quindi di intendere quale idea di donna ogni autore proponesse o promuovesse, in rapporto ai generi letterari e alle situazioni comunicative in cui operava. Nella friabilità di questo terreno scivoloso si colloca la possibilità di leggere le figure femminili non più e non tanto come “oggetti” della rappresentazione artistica, ma come soggetti con i quali entrare in dialogo. Sulla base di queste premesse, al centro di questo contributo sarà la rappresentazione di Elvia, la madre, disegnata dal figlio Seneca
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