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100	1	0	_aPretalli, Michel _eauthor
245	0	0	_aThe Battle of Pharsalus in Mario Savorgnano’ s Arte militare terrestre e maritima.Composition and Decomposition of a Narrative
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520			_aThe battle of Pharsalus, which sealed Pompey’s defeat against Caesar in 48 BC, gave birth to an important textual tradition ever since the account given by the victorious general himself in his De bello civili. From antiquity to the Renaissance, truth has evidently not constituted a major concern for the authors who referred to the Thessalian battle. In fact, during the sixteenth century, the narrative of the battle represented, in the eye of Italian writers of military books, a kind of raw material they had to exploit in order to reach a certain number of goals, by bringing into play precise textual and rhetorical strategies. Used as a repertory of topical elements, Pharsalus was a particularly emblematic battle. The various ways in which the narrative and the ancient knowledge have been exploited show the writing skills of authors of military books such as Mario Savorgnano’s Arte militare terrestre e maritima, and demonstrate how thin the line is between utilitarian and literary works in Renaissance culture.
690			_aRhetoric
690			_aCaesar
690			_aBattle Narrative
690			_aItalian Renaissance
690			_aSavorgnano
690			_aWar
690			_aTransmission of Knowledge
690			_aMilitary Literature
690			_aAntiquity
690			_aPompey
786	0		_nDialogues d’histoire ancienne | 41/1 | 1 | 2015-06-16 | p. 201-228 | 0755-7256
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-dialogues-d-histoire-ancienne-2015-1-page-201?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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