Abstract
Abstract This chapter presents the first edition and commentary of a fifteenth-century Latin elegiac poem by Pompeo Pazzaglia on the Roman Pantheon and a prophecy by its supposed ‘presiding deity’, the goddess Cybele, about the arrival of a second Aeneas who will transform Rome from a Christian city back to a ‘pagan’ one. Exploration of textual detail, historical context and intertextual interpretation, involving a wide range of ancient authors, as well as medieval traditions (e.g. the Mirabilia Vrbis Romae) and contemporary accounts of the physical state of ancient Rome by Biondo Flavio, Poggio, and Leon Battista Alberti, leads to larger questions about Christianity and paganism, and attitudes towards a looming Ottoman invasion of Europe. The rough versification of the poem leaves some questions about grammatical construction and interpretation difficult to resolve.
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