tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247216777605704.post4887353652041485757..comments2023-04-05T08:04:07.514-04:00Comments on Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2010.03.62Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247216777605704.post-87478686949830049532010-04-08T15:20:36.082-04:002010-04-08T15:20:36.082-04:00I must respond to Professor Hunink’s review, who h...I must respond to Professor Hunink’s review, who has obviously not only misunderstood the meaning of my contribution, but perhaps the entire book. Indeed, I remain of the opinion that my contribution, like the other ones of academic nature, are perfectly consistent with the theme of the colloquium.<br /><br />Maybe Professor Hunink confuses “school”, a word to be considered in a historical and ample sense (as Fabio Gasti well explained in his Introduction), with the term “teaching”, and this confusion probably explains a series of reviews, which could also be attributed to an inaccurate reading of the volume, perhaps due to a lack of familiarity with the many nuances of Italian. <br /><br />Much to my surprise, Professor Hunink, with excessive punctuality, number the pages of each article without indicating the titles (my contribution is titled: “Agostino tra Bruto, Livio e Virgilio [civ. 3,16; 5,18]. Un possible tirannicidio cristiano? “): in this way does not provide a correct and necessary information to readers of the “BMCR”. <br /><br />Regarding my article (which Professor Hunink described as “too long”, but thank you for calling my work “all very learned and richly documented”: I hope that there is no irony in these words! Think it was the right length considering the amount of material I analyzed), Professor Hunink neglects to say that the school is the main theme of my work: Augustine, in his polemical purposes against Brutus, uses the ambiguities of Virgil’s text (Aen. 6, 823), that he had already found in the comments used at school, in a skilful manner. In turn, Augustine will become a “classic” for the following authors, read at school in the first place: the interpretation of Virgil’s line will thus remain influenced by the reading of Augustin, starting a real school of thought. <br /><br />I cannot understand the “clear lack of restraint”, and even less the “self-indulgent”, of which I am accused by Professor Hunink, that never enters the substance of my article: a closer examination, and a less superficial and hasty review, were sufficient.Sergio Audanonoreply@blogger.com