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Milone di Saint-Amand

Vita Sancti Amandi Metrica

Edizione critica a cura di Corinna Bottiglieri

HB pp. CXLVI-230 4 tavv. f. t., € 64,00

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Testi, 16
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2006
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88-8450-197-0
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Between 845 and 855 Milone, a teacher in the Saint-Amand Abbey school, a well known cultural centre during the Carolingian period, wrote his first work, the Vita sancti Amandi metrica (BHL 333), a homage to the missionary saint, Amand, founder of the monastic community located on the banks of the river Elnon in NE France. The hagiographic poem transposes the Vita Amandi I (BHL 332), an anonymous prose text written at the beginning of the 8th century, in little more than 1800 hexameters. It is included among the most important and mature examples of Carolingian poetry for its stylistic, metric, and rhetorical sophistication and its refined and original use of poetic models of Antiquity and Late-Antiquity. This new critical edition, accompanied by an extensive commentary, reconsiders the manuscript and presents relevant innovations on the previous edition published by Ludwig Traube in 1896 (MGH, PLAC III).
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