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Article: The Poetry of Boethius.
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy is read by many different readers: philosophers, students of Latin literature, mediaevalists and historians. Its very form, a late and schematic type of satura Menippea (mixed prose and verse) have assured it a split clientele. There is little accessible good work available on Boethius in English (a notable exception: H. Chadwick's Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Theology, and Philosophy), little specifically on the Consolatio. (Courcelle's numerous writings are in French.) For learned commentary on the whole text of the Consolatio the reader had to turn to J. Gruber, Kommentar zu Boethius De consolatione Philosophiae (Berlin and ...