Publications

Authors:

Siedina, Giovanna

Title:

Un poema epico neolatino su Ivan Mazepa

Year:

2007

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Italiano

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

STUDI SLAVISTICI

ISSN of journal:

1824-761X

N° Volume:

IV

Page numbers:

85-115

Keyword:

Early-Modern Ukrainian Literature; Neo-Latin poetry; Epic-panegyric poetry; Ivan Mazepa

Short description of contents:

The author publishes for the first time, translates into Italian, and analyzes a Neo-Latin poem composed to celebrate the conquest of the fortresses along the Dnipro (1695) by the Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa. The peculiar feature of this poem is that, on one side, it is one of the few, or the only epic poem devoted to the Ukrainian hetman, on the other that it is modeled, at least partly, on Virgil’s Aeneid. The poem, however, also shows some features of the panegyric genre. The author points out the many linguistic-literary and historical reminiscences, especially those of Latin epic authors and Roman history, on one side, and of the panegyric discourse elaborated by the Latin-Polish rhetorical tradition, on the other. Through these reminiscences, the author of the poem aspires to insert the history of Ukraine-hetmanščyna into the European Latinitas by underlining the glorious deeds of its hetman Ivan Mazepa, whose fundamental contribution to the antemurale christianitatis and to Russian history only in the last years has begun to be assessed in a more objective and unprejudiced way.

Web page:

http://ejour-fup.unifi.it/index.php/ss/article/viewFile/2123/2044

Product ID:

41399

Handle IRIS:

11562/318227

Deposited On:

June 24, 2008

Last Modified:

November 14, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Siedina, Giovanna, Un poema epico neolatino su Ivan Mazepa «STUDI SLAVISTICI» , vol. IV , 2007 , pp. 85-115

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