Roma antica negli scritti di Venanzio Fortunato

Excerpts from verse and prose works by Venantius Fortunatus are presented in which references to the city of Rome appear: to its martyrs, its sovereigns and its illustrious families, to personalities and places of culture. The mention of personalities of ancient Rome appears in rhetorically connoted contexts: emperors and leaders constitute exempla for the sovereigns, the literati appear either in the context of the locus humilitatis referring to the poet himself or in the praises of cultured dignitaries, ecclesiastics and laymen, of the Merovingian kingdoms, especially if they could boast descent from families of senatorial rank, custodians of cultural continuity with the Roman past.