Transmuting Dido: Marot, Du Bellay and the Displacement of Ovidian and Virgilian Authority in Translatio.
Among classical heroines, the figure of Dido pervades the works of Renaissance writers and contemporary reflections on exemplarity. French humanist poets Clément Marot and Joachim Du Bellay exploit this ambivalent and topical figure to emulate and displace as authors Virgil and Ovid ( Aeneid III-IV;...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Classical Tradition Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 35 - 57 |
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