Capitolo 73
literature that will help us to understand the aspect on Italian ground
in the first century of ours it was of an erotic and long history of adventure,
treating in a realistic way with life of every-day, it marked from a satirical
tone and with an inclination toward the prose-poetic form? This is the question
raised by the analysis that we have done above, of the characteristics
of the history. We have any ambitious hope to resolve him/it, still the lake
affirmation of a to confuse but interesting problem is stimulating the
imagination and the intellect, and I am tried for taking on the subject
because the discovery of certain papyri in Egypt among the recent years has
conducted to the formulation of a new theory of the origin of the novel of
dangerous adventure, and it is able, therefore, throws of the light on the source of
our realistic novel of the life of every-day. My purpose, is then to speak
shortly of the different son-in-laws of the literature of the first period with
what the history of Petronius can be standing in of the direct relationship, or from
what the suggestion is been able to come to Petronius for its job. Very of
these lines of possible descent are cleverly been traced by others. In
their sights here and there I have made some changes, and I have
attention called to one or two types of the literature belonging to the,
first period and till now unnoticed in this connection that can help
us to understand the aspect of the realistic novel.
It seems a distant cries from this history of the sordid motives and vulgar action to
the heroic episodes of poetry of epic poem, and he/she anchors the _Satirae_s they don't contain a
few more direct suggestions of situations of epic poem and characters. The
the conventional motive for the history of Petronius is the anger of an offended
divinity. The account in the _Odyssey_ and the _AEneid_ remains on the same
base. The ship of the their hostile Lichas on that Encolpius and his
companions are confined on he/she remembers to the cavern of the Cyclops; Giton
hiding from the city-town crier under a mattress is comparative to Ulysses