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The second chapter, by Filomena Giannotti, focuses on Augustine’s Confessiones
“It provides a fresh account of the ways Gallo-Roman Christian poets composed verse amid barbarian incursions, the rise of monasticism, and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire itself” (from the back cover of the book). Among these poets: Paulinus of Nola, Paulinus of Pella, Sidonius Apollinaris, and Avitus of Vienne, with an Appendix on Ennodius
Letters as autobiography? (pp. 2-6)
see § V. La biografia di Ennodio alla luce della sua ‘autobiografia’ and § VI. Quale genere letterario? (pp. 22-55)
“La situazione drammatica del dialogo tra Filosofia e Boezio, che si trova in prigione in attesa di essere giustiziato” (dalla scheda editoriale)
“Questo narrare la propria genuina esperienza è un tentativo del tutto nuovo che dà inizio a un genere letterario: lo scritto autobiografico apologetico con valore storico” (dalla scheda editoriale)

Contacts: filomena.giannotti@unisi.it
(Dipartimento di Filologia e Critica delle Letterature Antiche e Moderne - Università di Siena)

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