Una riscrittura umanistica del Credo in esametri classici : il Symbolum Nicaenum di Paolo Pompilio

This article provides the editio princeps of a poetic paraphrase in hexameters of the Creed preserved in the manuscript Vatican lat. 2222 (XV century) and attributed to the Roman humanist Paolo Pompilio. After briefly presenting the author and his works, his Christian culture and the reasons which may have led him to compose a poetic paraphrase of the Symbol (the text is,indeed, part of a long-standing literary tradition), the article provides a critical edition of the text followed by a systematic, stylistic and literary commentary, which mainly aims at highlighting the poet’s debt towards classical, late-antique and medieval versification.