Immagini di Roma antica nei Carmina di Giovanni Pascoli

Abstract

This essay examines two different representations of ancient Rome, its history and its power, to be found in Giovanni Pascoli’s Latin poetry. Starting from a critical approach which considers the simultaneous presence of seemingly opposite elements as a typical feature of Pascoli’s poetics, this article focuses both on the great emphasis accorded to the Roman past in the two 1911 Hymni and on the more nuanced, indirect description of Rome’s powerful action in three historical poems later included in the section called Res Romanae.