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]AN
ZIOLKOWSKI
VIRGIL THE MAGICIAN
Publius Vergilius Maro, born in 70 BCE near Mantua and died in 19
BCE at Brindisi, came rapidly to epitomize
Romanitas
or Romanness in the
style and content of his poetry!. For thousands of
years
he has been recog-
nized for his three works, the
Eclogues, Georgics,
and
Aeneid.
My primary
aim here is to explore briefly how and why Virgil the poet became entwined
with a strange alter ego, Virgil the magician. The sorcerer often seems so
utterly unconnected with the Roman writer that the relationship between
the two has mystified, challenged, and provoked everyone who has delved
into it. How could the poster boy of poetic
Latinitas,
the sage chaperone of
Dante through the netherworld, have metamorphosed into a necromancer
who gained skills and powers through engagement with demons?
Exploring the medieval material would be futile without considering
modern scholarship, above all that of the nineteenth-century polymath
Domenico Comparetti (1835-1927)2. But for the moment, we must not allow
Comparetti himself to detain us from the Middle Ages and early modernity,
the close to a half millennium during which Virgil the magician -
Virgilius
magus,
in Latin - was widely known, probably even more widely than the
poet himself. Coming to terms with Virgil the magician requires delving
The scholarship on Virgil's
Romanitas
is vast. One
synthesis
can be found in Brooks
Otis,
Virgil's
Romanitas
and
his
Adaptation
of Greek Heroes,
<<Aufstieg
und Niedergang der
romischen Welt. Geschichte und Kultur Roms
im
Spiegel der neueren
Forschung»,
2. 31. 2
Principal, Sprache
undLiteratur,
edited by W. Haase, Berlin, W. de Gruyter, 1981, pp. 985-1010.
2
D
.
Comparetti,
Virgilio nel media eva,
a
cura diG. Pasquali,
Florence,
La Nuova Italia,
1937-194F;
Vergil in the Middle
Ages,
translated by
E.
F.
M. Benecke, Princeton, N.J., Prin-
ceton University Press, 1997. More recent
studies
include
L.
Petzoldt,
Vt'rgilius
Magus: Der
Zauberer
Virgil in
der literarischen Tradition des Mittelalters,
in
Horen-Sagen-Lesen-Lernen:
Bausteine
zu einer
Geschichte der
kommunikativen
Kultur,
edited by U. Brunold-Bigler- H.
Bausinger, Bern, Peter Lang, 1995, pp. 549-568, and W. Suerbaum,
Von der
Vita
Vergiliana
uber die Accessus
Vergiliani
zum
Zauberer Vergilius. Probleme-Perspektiven-Analyse,
«Aufstieg
und Niedergang der romischen Welt», 2. 31. 2, edited by W. Haase, 1981, pp. 1156-1262.
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