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Quos tamen chordae nequeunt sonare, / corda sonabunt: Sidon. epist. IX 16,3 vers. 83-841 (Sidonio Apollinare giudica la sua poesia)
2006-08-21T10:46:03Z
Abstract
Sidonius Apollinaris concludes with these verses the ode contained in the last epistle of his collection. This letter is commonly considered his “political and literary will”, a sort of final balance of his activity as author of poetry and epistolary prose. Sidonius abandons poetry because it is less suitable to his rank of bishop, in favour of a higher genre, literary prose, which regulates the epistolary genre; he thus makes a choice which is diametrically opposed to that avowed by the classical recusatio. As a first approach to this epistle, this paper will carry out a close reading of Sidonius’ text and in parallel with Horace’s last ode.