Le parole del pianto nella poesia di Venanzio Fortunato

Abstract

My article deals with the research of the vocabulary of crying in Venantius Fortunatus’ poems. Firstly, in the first paragraph, I did a brief introduction about this theme in Ancient and Medieval Latin Literature, then, in the second paragraph, I wrote about the Venantius Fortunatus’ corpus of poems. After that, in the third paragraph, I focused my atten-tion on the poems: I reviewed them to find the vocabulary of crying, then I collected these words in twelve tables divided into five columns. The fourth paragraph is important because I gave a brief commentary about the data I found during my research: I organized them into three big groups, one about religious personalities, other about noble and royal Merovingian figures and the last one about people, famous or not, who aren’t quoted in other literary orhistorical sources. Finally, the last one paragraph is about a stylistic and lexical analysis of words of crying used in Venantius. I collected these words into three tables (one about nouns, other about verbs and the last one about adjectives) and I gave a brief commentary about the main iuncturae in his poems. I tried to select which of them are present in the authors before Venantius and in his Fortleben.