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ab urbe condita

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ab urbe condita Latin [æb ˈɜːbɪ ˈkɒndɪtə]
(Historical Terms) the full form of AUC [a]
[literally: from the founding of the city]


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Each of the five chapters in Marchesi's book traces the contours and explores the implications of these hidden strata of the Decameron: allusions to Livy's Ab urbe condita are discovered in the plague description of the Decameron's introduction; a passage from Aristotle's Rhetoric clarifies Boccaccio's enigmatic classification of his novelle; strains of Horace's Satire 1.
3) Il capitolo 26 del venticinquesimo libro degli Ab urbe condita e un testo che e stato per la prima volta segnalato cursoriamente da Getto (accanto, e in subordine, all'Ovidio di Metamorfosi VII e al Seneca dell'attacco dell'Oedipus) come uno dei necessari intermediari filologici del commercio testuale indiretto tra Decameron e De rerum natura, ma non e riuscito a farsi strada nel dibattito critico.
 
 
 
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