Virgilio a Strasburgo : gli autori di Richard Heinze

Richard Heinze’s Virgil’s Epic Technique marks a milestone in Virgilian criticism, which in the century before its publication had largely kept close to the Romantic lack of appreciation for the Aene/dvis â vis Homeric epic. While Heinze’s philological approach has already been investigated, less attention has been devoted to identifying and analyzing his frequent references to French and German authors from the XVIIIth century onwards. This paper argues that Heinze’s familiarity with those authors and their poetics is a key component of his innovative reading of Vir- gil’s poem and accounts for some of his more original insights.