Gli studi di Bruno Luiselli sulla poesia bucolica

This paper focuses on studies relating to Greek and Latin bucolic poetry from the 1960s to the 1980s through the lens of Bruno Luiselli’s research activity, who showed interest in this subject area at the beginning of his career: the article published in Maia on Nemesian’s I ecloga dates from 1958. This interest, far from being accidental or episodic, unfolds over the course of about a decade, culminating in the dense volume on the origins and forms of bucolic poetry in Greece and Rome (Studi sulla poesia bucolica, Cagliari, Editrice Sarda Fossataro, 1967). Later, on the occasion of the Virgilian Bimillenary celebrations (1982), Luiselli returned to deal with the fourth eclogue from a different perspective, concentrating on the early Christian interpretation of the poem, and deepening, in line with the privileged scope of his more mature investigations, that interpretation in properly historical-theological terms, that is, the history of patristic theology.