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Bruna Pieri

Full Professor

Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies

Academic discipline: L-FIL-LET/04 Latin Language and Literature

Research

Keywords: Didactic poetry Classical reception Augustine Translation Studies Christian Latin Virgil Georgics Augustine's Confessions Fragmentary latin poets

  • Virgil's Georgics (philological commentary to book III; the reworking of the models: Ennius, Lucretius, Virgil himself)
  • Christian Latin ( Schrijnen's handbook up to date; Augustine's  lexicon concerning time)
  • The Fortune of Ancient authors (Augustine's use of pagan authors; literary translations from classic authors; how to make a literary translation of a Latin text)
  • Translation studies  focused on classical texts


  • Virgil's Georgics:  literary and philological commentary to book 3; the reworking of the models: Ennius, Lucretius, Virgil himself (from Bucolics to Georgics III: same content, but different style); the art of reference in Virgilian didactic poem and the development of  latin didactic poetry
  • Christian Latin: Schrijnen's handbook up to date; Augustine's  lexicon concerning time, with particular focus on intentio/extensio/distentio lexical group (his Senecan and Pauline antecedents)
  •  The Reception of Ancient authors: Augustine's use of pagan authors (with particular focus on Virgil and the tragedies of Seneca); literary translations from classic authors (S. Quasimodo and his "Fiore delle Georgiche" ; P. Bufalini and some not yet  published translations from Catullus)
  • Translation studies  focused on classical texts: how to make a target oriented and a source oriented translation

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