This essay on Mario Luzi's play Libro di Ipazia (1978) focuses on the conclict between late Paganism and early Christianity in fourth--to fifth- century Alexandria, respectively represented by Hipatia and Synesius. Special attention is also given to thr role played by the city itself, for the description of which Luzi drew from Dnte's Inferno, and to a number of texutual referencess suggesting that the fictional Hypatia was partly modelled on thr twentieth.centyry Italian poet and assayist Cristina Campo
La città e la donna nel Libro di Ipazia di Mario Luzi
POZZI, ROSANNA
2014-01-01
Abstract
This essay on Mario Luzi's play Libro di Ipazia (1978) focuses on the conclict between late Paganism and early Christianity in fourth--to fifth- century Alexandria, respectively represented by Hipatia and Synesius. Special attention is also given to thr role played by the city itself, for the description of which Luzi drew from Dnte's Inferno, and to a number of texutual referencess suggesting that the fictional Hypatia was partly modelled on thr twentieth.centyry Italian poet and assayist Cristina Campo
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