From the nugae of Sidonius, numerous and important pieces of information about the author's biography emerge. He recounts events from his daily life (stays with friends, dinner invitations, financial difficulties, impatience with living alongside the barbarians, night fishing...) and also, in carm. 16, the circumstances under which Faustus, the bishop of Riez, administered baptism to him. To ‘construct’ the account of the overwhelming emotions he felt upon first entering the community of the faithful, Sidonius does not hesitate to reuse well-known topoi of love poetry and portrays himself as a deeply disturbed ‘lover’, who approaches the mother goddess of the church, blending, in the most refined way, classical tradition with the sensitivity of a believer.
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Titolo del capitolo
Raccontarsi nei Carmina minora: Sidonio e il tempo della ‘tenera giovinezza’
Autori
Stefania Santelia
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0676-1.12
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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
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© 2025 Author(s)
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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