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RIVOLTELLA, M., Le forme del morire. La gestualità nelle scene di morte dell' 'Eneide'. Vita & Pensiero, Milano, 2005. X,129p. Sewn. With gift intention from the author to professor Deroux. Nice copy.'This interesting little book may be read both as a single unified work and as a sequence of five independent studies on different forms of death in the 'Aeneid'. Firmly located in the field of cultural poetics, R. examines the intereaction between the dramatisation of death in an epic narrative and a set of key socio-political values and ideas directing towards the major cultural theme of Augustus' idealised 'restituted republic'. But most of the Virgilian passages are given a nuanced reading, of the contexts in which they appear, and of the intra- and intertextual relation between the 'Aeneid' and earlier literature (primarily the Homeric poems, but also the early Latin fragmentary authors, Livy and Virgil's earlier works). ' (SOPHIA PAPAIOANNOU in The Classical Review (New Series), 2007, pp.388-89). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 19.50 (Antiquarian) ISBN: 9788834350249