>Can anyone provide me with references to medieval artistic depictions of
>Virgil, particularly to any which represent him as a magician?
>
>Thank you! -- George
>
Dear George,
This will not be news for you, but he is omnipresent -- though not as
magician -- in illustration of the Commedia. You might start with Peter
Brieger / Millard Meiss / Charles S. Singleton, _Illuminated Manuscripts of
the Divine Comedy_, Princeton: Princeton UP (= Bollingen Series, 81).
For depictions in mss. of the Aeneid, you could check Jeanne Courcelle, _Les
illustrations de l'E/ne/ide dans les manuscrits du Xe au XVe sie\cle_, in:
AA.VV., _Lectures me/die/vales de Virgile - Actes du colloque organise/ par
l'E/cole Franc,aise de Rome (Rome, 25 - 28 octobre 1982), Roma 1985 (=
Collection de l'EF, 80), p.395-409
For the legend of Virgil, still useful is Domenico Comparetti, _Virgilio nel
Medio Evo_, Livorno: F. Viglio, 1872, 2a ed. 1896, and several later
editions, engl. tr. by Edward Felix Mendelssohn Bennecke, London:
Sonnenschein, 1895, repr. London : Allen & Unwin, 1966; I don't know whether
the legend is treated by Zabughin, but you might check Vladimiro Zabughin,
_Vergilio nel rinascimento italiano da Dante a Torquato Tasso_, Bologna:
Zanichelli, 1921-1923, 2 vols.; more recent and probably useful for you is
John W. Spargo, _Virgil the Necromancer: Studies in Virgilian Legends,
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1934 (= Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature,
10), xii+502 pp.
In German, there are Paul Schwieger, _Der Zauberer Virgil_, Berlin: Mittler,
1897, 76 pp., and Werner Suerbaum, _Von der vita Vergiliana u"ber die
Accessus Vergiliani zum Zauberer Vergilius_, in: ANRW = Aufstieg und
Niedergang der Ro"mischen Welt / Rise and Decline of the Roman Wolrd, ed.
Hildegard Temporini et al., II: Principat, 31: Sprache und Literatur, 2,
Berlin 1981, p.1156-1262. If you want me to, I could look them up for you.
Did you try the _Enciclopedia Virgiliana_? I have no complete reference, but
I believe it should be: dir. Francesco della Corte, Roma: Istituto
dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1984ss.
I believe that there exist some useful reference tools for iconographic
research on the WWW, one of them by the Paul Getty Museum. But I have no
URL's and can't check at the moment, because my access to the WWW is still
down (until next Thursday).
Yours,
Otfried
P.S.: I'll send you another message later this evenening off the list.
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