Fragments of “insubre identity”: notes regarding the tradition of CIL V, 5216

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  • Mauro Reali

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-4797/16946

Keywords:

Latin Epigraphy; gens Plinia; Asso; Insubria; Classical tradition; Genius loci

Abstract

The Author suggests some reflections about the tradition of a Latin inscription kept in Asso (CO), CIL V, 5216: it is an altar dedicated to a local Genius by two members of the gens Plinia. The comment on this epigraph allows us to highlight the different approach to their own “insubre” past of some scholars of the Renaissance or Counter-Reformation period (Castiglioni, Alciato, Borsieri) compared to that endorsed in a manuscript by Reverend Father Carlo Mazza, the parish priest of Asso between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries.

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Author Biography

Mauro Reali

Mauro Reali is PhD in Ancient History from the University of Bologna. He has collaborated with the University of Milan for a long time, and is currently a teacher at “Liceo Scientifico e Classico Antonio Banfi” in Vimercate (MB). His research studies focus on Latin epigraphy, social history and the classical tradition. He is in charge, with Antonio Sartori, of the EDR (Epigraphic Database Rome) project for ancient Comum.

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Published

2021-12-27

Issue

N. 29 (2021)

Section

Studies by friends and colleagues for Maria Teresa Grassi (part I)

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