L'Exemplum Virgilien: Itinera Parthenopea, I - Paperback

by Marc Deramaix (Editor), Giuseppe Germano (Editor)

In the Neapolitan Renaissance academy, Latin poets made imitation a principle of their writing-including the imitation of Virgil, the exemplum of all styles. Sometimes their imitations were more Virgilian than the model that gave birth to an originality that they defined for the Moderns.