Versi didoniani nel centone di Proba

The Author examines some passages of Proba’s cento, where Virgil’s story of Dido is reused: the description of God’s love for his creation (vv. 107-114); the rich young man (vv. 518-530); the flight of the apostles after Christ’s death, and Peter’s mourning (vv. 638-647); Christ showing his wounds to the apostles, after his resurrection (vv. 677-681). The reuse of Virgilian verses pertaining to Dido’s episode seemingly betray Proba’s sympathy toward Virgil’s ‘infelix Dido’; but most of all Proba seems to exploit the Virgilian context these verses come from, in order to suggest an implicit interpretation of the biblical episodes she narrates.