The heroic epistle of Francesco Mario Molza on Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII
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https://doi.org/10.34624/agora.v0i26.1.41749Keywords:
Francesco Maria Molza, Neolatin poetry, heroic epistle, Catherine of AragonAbstract
The heroic epistle was used as a literary model by Renaissance authors. Heroic themes are now replaced by national themes. The same thing happens in neo-Latin literature. An interesting example given the relevance of the characters are the epistles about the history of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII. In one of them titled Ad Henricum Britanniae regem uxoris repudiatae nomine, composed around 1534 by Francesco Maria Molza (1489-1544), Catherine of Aragon, as an abandoned heroine, accuses her husband Henry VIII. The author does not resort to a historical event from the past but to something that has just happened, the king’s betrayal of his wife and the break with the Church of Rome. In this work we study Molza’s letter, highlighting the Italian poet’s allusive use of sources, mainly from the Aeneid and Ovid, to understand the personality and motivations of the characters.
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