Intervisualità e intertestualità nella poesia astronomica latina di età augustea

The article aims to test the concept of intervisuality through the analysis of several case studies drawn from a delimited corpus of texts chronologically close. The introduction provides a historical contextualization of the issue, with an analysis of ancient evidence on the relationship between text and image in the Latin reception of Aratus’ Phaenomena. The second part is dedicated to textual analysis. The first passage, taken from the first book of Manilius’ Astronomica, illustrates the significance of ἐνάργεια as a textual mechanism for representing visual data. The other two passages, taken from Ovid’s Fasti and Germanicus’ Phaenomena, can demonstrate how the mechanism of intervisuality can convey complex literary instances. Lastly, the article demonstrates how the authors of astronomical poetry from the late Augustan Age are aware of the visual potentials provided to them by the tradition of the Phaenomena and exploit these potentials in a tight dialogue with their models.