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    A MEDIEVAL EKPHRASIS FROM OTRANTO LINDA SAFRAN/WASHINGTON, DC ‘The “schoo!” of Greek poetry that flourished at the southernmost tip of Apulia in the second quarter of the thirteenth century is well known to scholars of Byzantine litera- ture." This school - if a group of four can be said to consticute a school ~ was centered around Nicholas-Nectarius, abbot from 1219 t 1235 of the Greek monastery of 8. Nicola at Casole outside Otranto and papal and imperial envoy to Constantinople and Nicaea.’ With Nicholas-Nectarius were his students and followers: John Grasso, an imperial notary; the latter’s son, Nicholas of Otranto; and George, xaorogthat of Gallipoli. Together they produced religious and secular epigrams, poems, and, in the ease of ‘Nectarius, longer treatises on a variety of subjects. The poetic works have been published in Greck and in some cases have received Italian translation and commentary.’ ‘However, a new translation of one of the poems of John Grasso into English reveals an unexpected subtext: Grasso was looking at a specific work of art when composing his “The poem in question is dodecasyllbic, the most common Byzantine poetic meter. It has appeared in Greek with minor differences in the editions of Heck and Loenertz and. ‘of Marcello Gigante; I have relied on the more recent publication of the latter. Rxigot_xarit 1 index tov teooKQuY ono TOY Ext Tod DaoTeion, eizonitovtay wis eooagas Biayyehoris, txdodEvtes nag" Twdvvor vorugion ‘YO- Qo8vT06, HaHrTOd To’ aitg Nixodcov. ‘Dimov wot wot Tig omg ree THOS, omy’ wwx0i WoL tive Tir’ Gano‘ Ti teromnnit mdvov ebrakia exceyyehotay ebBEtIng nerMYHENY, oyowiouaa ola 54 Tov aootShoy Senyooians wijzos elorerauéyny 2ng0s iy dixas riz cloudy Beiw 2689) izote ona obgaviey Daaweov pds obs tuntniis drpond névea Tbe. H, Hunger, Die hochsprachliche profane Literavar der byzantiner, Bd. Il (Munich 1978); H.- G.Beck, Kirche nd theologische Literatur im byzantinischen Reich (Munich 1959). More "borough invesigaton ofthe “sunk postin alenna” has been undertaken by M Gigi, La civil erecraria, in: T Bizantni in Italia (Milan 1982) 630ff., and idem, Poedi bizancini di Terra

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