ABSTRACT

The article sets out to show the ideological significance of the quotations from Vergil, Lucan, Horace, Homer, and Ovid found in Vita Nova 16 [XXV], the celebrated passage where Dante cites these poets as examples of personification in classical literature. In the quotations from Vergil’s Aeneid, Aeolus and Juno speak to each other, and Apollo speaks to the Trojans. In his framing of the quotations, Dante appears implicitly to regard pagan deities like Aeolus, Juno, and Apollo as inanimate things, raising the question as to why the author of the Vita Nova understood pagan gods in terms of poetic tropes. Focusing on the Vergilian quotations, this essay argues that Servius’s commentary to the Aeneid represents one of the major sources that might have led Dante to construe pagan deities as rhetorical personifications.

摘要

这篇文章旨在展示维吉尔、卢坎、霍勒斯、荷马和奥维德在Vita Nova 16 [XXV]中的引文的意识形态意义，但丁在这段著名的段落中引用了这些诗人作为古典文学中拟人化的例子。在维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯纪》的引文中，风神和朱诺彼此交谈，阿波罗与特洛伊人交谈。在他的报价的框架，但丁含蓄似乎把异教神象风神，朱诺和阿波罗作为无生命的东西，提出一个问题，为什么笔者维塔新星在诗意的比喻来理解异教神。本文着眼于 Vergilian 的引文，论证了 Servius 对埃涅阿斯纪的评论 代表了可能导致但丁将异教神灵解释为修辞拟人的主要来源之一。