Ancient letter collections possess clear autobiographical elements and potential, since their constituent letters regularly contain fragments of the author’s life story. But it is not clear that autobiographical narration was the primary purpose of ancient letter collections. This was a situation of some frustration to early modern editors of ancient letter collections, who regularly supposed that the primary function or use of letters was in fact to tell the author’s life story. In the first centuries of print, editors undertook a programme of re-arrangement of ancient letters designed either to intensify the autobiographical elements of letter sequences or – through chronological re-arrangement – to put letters in the sequence of the author’s life.
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Titolo del capitolo
Autobiographical Elements in Printed Editions of Late Antique Latin Letter Collections
Autori
Roy K. Gibson
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0676-1.04
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
In aula ingenti memoriae meae. Forme di autobiografia nella letteratura tardolatina
Sottotitolo del libro
Atti dell’International Workshop - Siena, 13 e 14 giugno 2024
Curatori
Filomena Giannotti, Daniele Di Rienzo
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
240
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Copyright
© 2025 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
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
Collana
Studi di Antichistica
ISSN della collana
3103-3954
e-ISSN della collana
3103-3970