Virgil’s Hero, Turnus: Maffeo Vegio’s and Pier Candido Decembrio’s Supplements to the Aeneid (with a New Edition and Translation of Decembrio)

I examine a dialogue between the Renaissance Supplements to Virgil’s Aeneid by Pier Candido Decembrio and Maffeo Vegio. I argue that Decembrio’s short poem is not unfinished but instead provides the Iliadic ending to the Aeneid that Virgil withholds, namely a lament over Turnus’s body to match the l...

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Main Author: Gervais, Kyle (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Iter Press 2022
In: Renaissance and reformation
Year: 2022, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 17-49
RelBib Classification:KBJ Italy
TB Antiquity
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B Maffeo Vegio
B Translation
B Virgil
B Pier Candido Decembrio
B Aeneid
B Reception Studies
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