Il mito di Atteone nell’esegesi medievale alle Metamorfosi: il commentario Vulgato e il Vat. Lat. 1479 tra lettura allegorica e analisi letteraria
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36191/mjb/2025-60-3-4Schlagworte:
Metamorphoses, Ovid, exegesis, Middle Ages, Actaeon, commentary, Vulgate, Vat. Lat. 1479, allegory, DianaAbstract
Miriam Cirulli: The myth of Actaeon in the Metamorphoses’ medieval exegesis: the Vulgate commentary and the Vat. Lat. 1479 between alle-gorical reading and literary analysis
The article aims to provide a detailed analysis of the reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the medieval age. In particular, the study focuses on the comparison between the Vulgate, an anonymous commentary com-posed around 1260 in Orléans, and the Vat. Lat. 1479, a French codex written at the beginning of the 14th century. Thus, the Ovidian myth of Actaeon and Diana, narrated by Ovid in the third book of the poem, was chosen in order to make a synoptic reading of the glosses present in the two manuscripts and to examine affinities and differences in the exegetical method of the two interpreters.
