@article{ref1,
title="Overcoming the trauma of mors immatura in the Christian Cento De Verbi Incarnatione",
journal="Athenaeum",
year="2020",
author="Sisul, A.C.",
volume="2020",
number="2",
pages="507-518",
abstract="De Verbi Incarnatione features a speech in which God addresses his Son, urging him to become incarnate in the mortal world (w. 35-54). The first verses present many references to the prelude of Nisus and Euryalus∗ disastrous mission. Thus the Virgilian subtext portrays a pes-simistic motif: The death of youth. However, the Christian author counters the Virgilian negativity, adding a fortunate prophetic speech, extracted from a different scene of the Aeneid. The shift from pessimism to optimism conveys a positive meaning to the death of Christ. The same strategy reappears when the author juxtaposes a reference to the suicide of a young Virgilian shepherd with a series of verses extracted from the renowned fourth eclogue and its optimistic prophecy. As a result, the cento combines the memory of a literary and cultural tradition with the need to com-municate the precepts of Christianity. The final product is something clearly alter ab illo. © 2020 Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Facolta di Lettere. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0004-6574",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}