TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Overcoming the trauma of mors immatura in the Christian Cento De Verbi Incarnatione
JO  - Athenaeum
A1  - Sisul, A.C.
SP  - 507
EP  - 518
VL  - 2020
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - es
SN  - 0004-6574
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -