A Far Better Elysium: emulation and intertextuality in Giovanni Boccaccio's «Olympia»

• Grant number: 15/00202-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: July 05, 2015
• End date: December 04, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Isabella Tardin Cardoso
• Grantee: Adir de Oliveira Fonseca Junior
• Supervisor: Stephen Harrison
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Oxford, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 14/01868-7 - Giovanni Boccaccios Olympia: introductory study, translation and notes, BP.MS

Abstract

The aim of this BEPE project is to develop a short-term research on classical reception studies, to be held at the University of Oxford - Corpus Christi College, from July to December 2015, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stephen Harrison. As part of my regular Master's project entitled "Giovanni Boccaccio's Olympia: Introductory study, translation and notes" (Fapesp 2014/01868-7), during the internship period in Oxford I intend to investigate the reception of works by the Roman poet Vergil (70-19 BC) in the production of the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). More specifically, I am interested in the intertextual relationships that may be observed between the poetic texts of the 6th Book of the Aeneid and Olympia. Besides pointing out the thematic and formal affinities (as well as contrasts) between Anchises's Elysian Fields (Aen. 6 637-665) and Olympia's celestial paradise (Olymp., vv. 159-196), I will attempt to explore other kinds of associations, such as the presence of topoi from Vergil's Bucolics in Boccaccio's eclogue, which pertains to the same poetic genre. My interest in this internship-abroad research is motivated by Prof. Harrison's most recent works on Receptions of Latin literature, which are grounded on his various studies on Vergil and genre issues in general. Last but not least, consulting the libraries of the University of Oxford will be also an opportunity to having access to a large bibliography that, although fundamental to my Master's thesis, is not available in Brazil. (AU)