Livius (30,13,8-14) had entrusted to Scipio and Syphax the dialectical process that would have lead to the painful, bitter, tragic and poignant admission by the king loser of the perturbatio animi: at the end of his social and civil parabola, Syphax identifies Sophonisba as the cause of his ruinous débâcle. Differently from the ‘detorsio in rem comicam’ of Livius (Syphax lays down the mask of the King and wears the pathetic lover’s one), Alfieri, in order to avoid a tragicomic outcome, redeems Syphax by giving him back the attitude of a king in perpetual and irreconcilable conflict with Rome: through the unexpected suicide, Siphax gets finally rid of the chains that Scipio had only temporarily removed to let him feel free to talk, but not to act.
Il Siface ‘scatenato’. Metamorfosi di un re: da Tito Livio a Vittorio Alfieri
MASSELLI, GRAZIA MARIA
2013-01-01
Abstract
Livius (30,13,8-14) had entrusted to Scipio and Syphax the dialectical process that would have lead to the painful, bitter, tragic and poignant admission by the king loser of the perturbatio animi: at the end of his social and civil parabola, Syphax identifies Sophonisba as the cause of his ruinous débâcle. Differently from the ‘detorsio in rem comicam’ of Livius (Syphax lays down the mask of the King and wears the pathetic lover’s one), Alfieri, in order to avoid a tragicomic outcome, redeems Syphax by giving him back the attitude of a king in perpetual and irreconcilable conflict with Rome: through the unexpected suicide, Siphax gets finally rid of the chains that Scipio had only temporarily removed to let him feel free to talk, but not to act.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
