Even though he does not completely dismiss Virgil’s version of Dido, Boccaccio seems to be strongly oriented to lend credence to the historical memory of Dido. In so doing, the poet from Certaldo aims to rehabilitate the character of the queen, who had been described by Virgil and Dante as a woman at the mercy of an unbridled love passion and guilty of not keeping her vow of chastity after the death of her husband Sichaeus.
Il mito della regina Didone: ricezione e memoria poetica di un mito tragico in Boccaccio
Sabina Tuzzo
2019-01-01
Abstract
Even though he does not completely dismiss Virgil’s version of Dido, Boccaccio seems to be strongly oriented to lend credence to the historical memory of Dido. In so doing, the poet from Certaldo aims to rehabilitate the character of the queen, who had been described by Virgil and Dante as a woman at the mercy of an unbridled love passion and guilty of not keeping her vow of chastity after the death of her husband Sichaeus.File in questo prodotto:
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