In his Poetics, Vida extols the hexameter, versus heroicus, as the noblest metre. Although he recommends Virgil as the most perfect model for imitation, he himself uses the much freer hexameter of Horace, who not always takes care to make the ictus agree with the word accent in the last two feet, and sometimes breaks the Laws of Lachmann-Norden, Haupt and Marx. Thanks to the critical edition of Vida’s didactic poem, it is possible to observe the author’s work on the metre – he eliminates some clumsy lines that occur mainly in the Poetics preserved in the Venturi Codex (V).
Previously the changes in the work couldn’t be observed, from the earliest version of the „Poetics” which is preserved in the Venturi codex - throughout the version that represents the not authorized by Vida Paris edition – up to the two authorized editions of the work published in Rome and Cremona. In the article the examples of the changes made by Vida are demonstrated.
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Bisher konnte man nicht die Änderungen im Werk verfolgen, von der ältesten Version der Poetik an, die im Kodex des Venturi erhalten ist – durch die Version, die die von Vida nicht autorisierte Pariser Edition repräsentiert – bis zu den beiden autorisierten, in Rom und Kremona herausgegebenen, Editionen des Werkes. Im Aufsatz werden die Beispiele der von Vida vorgenommenen Änderungen gezeit.
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