Virgilio antiromantico. Citazioni classiche nelle lettere di Carlo Botta

Abstract

This article focuses on the quotations from the "Aeneid" and the "Georgics" in Carlo Botta’s unpublished letters to his Turinese friends, Stanislao Marchisio and Giuseppe Grassi. The quotations from Virgil are often anti-Romantic: Botta’s letters are fraught with erudite citations and aim at purism. By connecting great Latin writers, such as Virgil, to the Italian tradition, the author wanted to stress how the latter was, indeed, superior to the “astruserie di Germania e d’Inghilterra”.

Keywords

• carlo botta
• virgil