Rota Camonis: mapping of the presence of Virgil in Os Lusíadas

• Grant number: 21/00295-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: June 01, 2021
• End date: August 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Elaine Cristine Sartorelli
• Grantee: Miguel Ângelo Andriolo Mangini
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 21/09398-3 - Rota Camonis: mixture and disproportion in the presence of the three Virgilian genres in Os Lusíadas, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The specialists in Camões do not speak of Os Lusíadas without referring themselves to this poem's most obvious and objectively declared composition model, the Aeneid of Virgil. The critics, however, lack a systematic study of the influences from the other two poems of Virgil on Camões' epic, the Eclogues and the Georgics. Integrated in the area of reception studies, this research has the objective of listing the cases of Virgilian influence, with the help of Os Lusíadas' commentators, and of mapping the tripartite presence of Virgil in the epic Camões, in order to verify in which way the Roman poet's auctoritas over the Portuguese poet is established not only from his epic poem, but also from the non-epic ones. This mapping's theoretical basis is the Rota Vergilii, since it informs the main qualities of each one of the three Virgilian genres, and, because of this, offers systematic character to the analysis of the reception of this author by Camões. This work will have as goal the conception of a Rota Camonis, a diagram similar to the Rota Vergilii that will specify Os Lusiadas' textual elements through which Virgil's genres, corresponding to each one of his three poems, manifest themselves, in direct of indirect reference to the Virgilian text. Finally, this research discusses the generic mixture in Os Lusíadas and its framing in the epic genre, especially concerning the presence of Virgil's non-epic genres. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MANGINI, Miguel Ângelo Andriolo. The presence of the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid in Os Lusíadas. 2023. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.