The road not taken. The influence of Augustine’s De civitate Dei on Salutati’s De laboribus Herculis
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It has sometimes been suggested that Florentine chancellor Coluccio Salutati, like Hercules in the well-known Xenophon passage, is a figure in bivio – in this case, confronted with the diverging roads of ‘humanistic’ virtue and Christian morality. The present article aims to reconsider this characterisation through the study of Salutati’s De laboribus Herculis, a lengthy treatise on the allegorical interpretation of Seneca’s Hercules plays, especially in light of the seldom recognised presence of Saint Augustine. By identifying Augustine’s De civitate Dei as a primary source – based on references, marginal notes, and other intertextual elements –, one can subsequently see how Salutati’s conception of the theologia poetarum as a bridge between the pagan and the Christian world was fundamentally inspired by his reading of the City of God.
keywordsintertextuality, Coluccio Salutati, De laboribus Herculis, Augustine, De civitate Dei. |
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