I'd like to thank P. Roper and H. Conrad-O'Briain for their observations about twelfth century schooling and Curtius' masterpiece (not mentioned so far) respectively. With regard to the school, I have to recall an old, maybe old-fashioned but always charming remark by Ludwig Traube: VIII and IX century were the 'aetas Virgiliana', a period who saw Virgil as the only one classical author studied in the Carolingian schools (with Christian poets as Aratore, Prospero, Prudenzio...). About XII century, but not only, we must not forget the extraordinary Virgil's influence on epic poetry: you have only to think of the 'Alexandreis' of Gautier de Chatillon and of many other works that have been studied especially by P. G. Schmidt.
Another excellent contribution is 'Lecture médiévales de Virgile' published in Rome by the Ecole Française in 1985, and just now remember I another outstanding volume: C. Baswell, Virgil in medieval England, Cambridge, University Press, 1995. Isn't it interesting that Virgil was well known even in early Irish and Anglo-Saxon culture, even by Aldhelm of Malmesbury and Bede? dr. F. Bognini PhD University of Venice [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
