This study examines some of the ways in which Dracontius’ prison experience is represented and dramatized in his ‘prison writings’: Satisfactio, Epithalamium Ioannis et Vitulae (Romul. 7), De laudibus dei (last section of Book III). The account of the crucial event in the poet’s biography, the only one of which he substantially reports, moves within broad and general literary and scriptural clichés, but always keeping in mind as its main referent the Ovid of the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto. Dracontius conforms, in several respects and on several levels, his own story to that of Ovid’s exile, in texts in which real autobiography and literary autobiography, life and poetry end up coinciding.
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Chapter Title
Lettere dal carcere. Spazi di autobiografia nella poesia di Draconzio
Authors
Antonella Bruzzone
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0676-1.14
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Publication Year
2025
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Book Title
In aula ingenti memoriae meae. Forme di autobiografia nella letteratura tardolatina
Book Subtitle
Atti dell’International Workshop - Siena, 13 e 14 giugno 2024
Editors
Filomena Giannotti, Daniele Di Rienzo
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Number of Pages
240
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0676-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0675-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0676-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0677-8
Series Title
Studi di Antichistica