La guerra la chiar di luna di Goffredo Malaterra

The war in the moonlight of Geoffrey Malaterra · In order to show the Goffredo Malaterra’s rhetorical ability as an auctor, the essay shows the Goffredo’s original con- ception of history as poetry and analyses the overnight war scenes of his prosimetrum De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius. Goffredo’s historiography is close to epic: Goffredo, in fact, not only approaches the archetype of the Virgilian nyctomachia, but also, as a Norman writer, is close to the Chanson de Roland’s literary style.