Propercio en el Viridarium Illustrium Poetarum de Octaviano Mirándola: origen e influencia

Abstract

Taking Propertius’ selection as our point of departure, this paper intends to reveal the influence of Octavianus Mirandula’s Viridarium Illustrium Poetarum (1507) on seventeenth-century florilegia, especially those written by Joseph Langius and Cristóbal García Guillén de Paz respectively. Similary, we will show how Octavianus Mirandula’s selection of Propertius follows the one made by Ioannes Murmellius in his Ex elegiis Tibulii, Propertii et Ovidii Selecti Versus (1504). Thus, we will focus on the character of «florilegium of florilegia» of these selections or, rather, paraphrasing G. Genette, of literature «in the third degree». Besides, we will also analyse the pedagogical and moral intention of these selections, which obviate the essential contents of Propertian Elegies -love and death- in order to offer general sententiae in which love, when present, is a negative feeling.