Personae oscae e il riso popolare nelle atellane

HURBÁNKOVÁ, Šárka. Personae oscae e il riso popolare nelle atellane (Personae oscae and the folk laughter in the Atellan Farces). Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity, řada klasická N, Graeco-Latina Brunensia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2008, Neuveden, No 13, p. 67-79. ISSN 1211-6335.

Basic information

• Original name: Personae oscae e il riso popolare nelle atellane
• Name (in English): Personae oscae and the folk laughter in the Atellan Farces
• Authors: HURBÁNKOVÁ, Šárka (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity, řada klasická N, Graeco-Latina Brunensia, Brno, Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2008, 1211-6335.

Other information

• Original language: Italian
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/08:00047920
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: Atellan Farces; Folk Laughter; Folk Theater Genres; Roman Comedy; Personae oscae; Italic; Stock Characters; Pomponius; Novius
• Tags: RIV-OK

Abstract

L‘oggetto di questo lavoro é la favola atellana, una breve composizione satirica con i personaggi dai caratteri fissi. Visto che questa commedia popolare proviene dalla Campania osca ho cercato di rintracciare gli attributi italici che si sono probabilmente preservati anche nei frammenti in latino. La favola atellana, come genere popolare della commedia romana, é da considerarsi una manifestazione della cultura del riso. A mio parere, il riso popolare viene rappresentato in prevalenza nei frammenti citati dagli elementi del “basso materiale-corporeo”. Ho quindi cercato di rintracciare quel “sense of humour” popolare e la caratteristica delle personae oscae, ossia le maschere tipiche dai caratteri fissi.

Abstract (in English)

Fabula atellana, a short satiric composition with stock characters, is the subject of this study. I was interested how former Oscan Atellan Farces could have looked like, how the Roman youth transformed them when performed in Rome and what remained unchanged in a written form, they received from Latin poets Pomponius and Novius. It seams the Latin poets adopted the typical Italian humor, folk themes and of course the Personae Oscae, fixed masks with characteristic features. I have chosen those fragments where the material corporal elements occur and which were preserved in such a form that we can sense that folk laughter retained by the Latin poets in the smart puns or euphemisms. Other quotations have been chosen to present the typical personalities of these characters characterised also by their proper names.

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Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, The Centre for the Interdisciplinary Research of Ancient Languages and Older Stages of Modern Languages