BOLDRINI, S.,
Gli anapesti di Plauto. Metro e ritmo.
Università degli Studi di Urbino, Urbino, 1984. 195p. Sewn. Cover and edges a bit yellowed. Front cover a little bit creased. (Rare). 'The ancient grammarians distinguished anapaestic patterns from other types of pattern in Plautus' comic scripts, but not always without difficulty. (...) Those who tried to indicate the patterns in book texts perhaps found it hard to separate dimeters from tetrameters. Certainly, corruption in our witnesses often conceals what grammarians had decided on more or less rational grounds. During the great age of modern Plautine studies scholars differed widely about where to apply the label 'anapaestic'. (...) Sandro Boldrini, a pupil of Cesare Questa, submitted a dissertation to the University of Urbino in 1968 on 'I versi anapestici di Plauto' and since then has published a series of articles on various aspects of Plautus' anapaests (...). The present volume reprints these articles in an updated form, adds a hithero unpublished essay 'Un semioritmema' (...), a bibliography (...), and two indexes. (...) Much patient and thoughtful research underlies these essays.' (H.D. JOCELYN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1985, pp.264-66).
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