Capitolo 68
and historical poems of Claudian. The way also in that the tragedy, comedy,
lyric poetry, history, the biography and the other types of the literature in
prose and verse entered existence and they developed among the Romans you/he/she can be
follows with reasonable success. But the origin and the first history of the
novel is involved in obscurity. The great realistic novel of Petronius
some first century of ours was it is without an ancestor legally recognized
and it doesn't have direct descendant. The situation is the most amazing when us
you recall his/her probable ransom in his/her original form. Clearly only a part of him
you/he/she has come down to us, of the one hundred and ten pages in everybody. His/her great ransom
it probably showed him fatal to his/her maintenance in his/her complete form, or to
the less one contributed to that end, for him you/he/she has been valued that raced from
six hundred to nine hundred pages, being longer, therefore that the
middle novel of Dickens and Scott. Accordingly we am not giving with a
bit of the ephemeral literature, but with an elaborate composition of a tall
degree of excellence, back part that we should wait us to find a long line of
development. We am not confused so a lot from the absolute absence of anything
in the way of the fiction of prose in front of the duration of Petronius as from the
the difficulty to establish some logical and satisfactory connection among
these pieces of the literature and the novel of Petronius. We am
puzzled, in fact, from the various possibilities that the situation
present. The job shows you aim of similarity with very antecedent
forms of composition but the openings of which you/they lie in some false line
descent is so great as it stuffed to doubt its correctness.
If we call for minding the present condition of this novel and those
characteristic represents of it what I am pertinent to the question to
you publish, the nature of the problem and his/her difficulty it will be also apparent
immediately. Out of the original job, in a rather fragmentary form, only four
or five principal episodes are existing of one of what the bright history is