Exile and relegation in Dante and Ovid *.(Critical essay)

Annali d'Italianistica | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

Robert Wilson, in "Exile and Relegation in Dante and Ovid," contrasts Dante's exile with Ovid's confinement to a faraway place. Although Dante and Ovid are often grouped together as poets of exile, a fundamental difference marks the nature of the two poets' exile. Ovid is relegated rather than exiled, so that he is confined to Tomis, whilst Dante is excluded from Florence. This basic difference of orientation resides at the basis of differences in Dante's and Ovid's treatment of their places of exile in particular, and may also explain the reasons Dante does not refer much ...

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