Author: Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard, Gaelle
Title: Descriptions monumentales et discours sur l'édification chez Paulin de Nole : Le regard et la lumière (epist. 32 et carm. 27 et
Description: Leiden, Brill, 2006. orig. boards. xii, 552 pp., 24x16cm, Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, volume 79.. Textual drawings & plans. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Pontius Meropius Paulinus (ca 353-431), one of the greatest poets of Late Latin Poetry and author of an important correspondence, was born in a wealthy family of the Gallo-Roman aristocracy in Bordeaux. After his spectacular conversion to asceticism and his sacerdotal ordination, he set up definitively as a monk in Italy, in Campanian Nola besides the tomb of St. Felix. There, Paulinus devoted his considerable fortune to the restructuring of the monumental complex which has appeared around this holy place, since the early years of the fourth century & mainly a church. This book is a literary & spiritual study of the description of this complex (carm. 27 & 28 & epist. 32), an other way of edification (the edification of the soul in temple for her creator.) A careful comparison with archaeological testimonies must help estimate the status of Paulinus 'monumental descriptions" - Publisher's description. [Contents: Étude de la lettre 32: La lettre 32: Un véritable discours de la méthode' pour la pensé e architecturale de Paulin; De l'édification par le discours au discours sur l'édification à travers les exemples de Nole et de Fundi; Fundi. " fille de Nole", un autere exemple de l'oeuvre de Paulin bâtisseur;Les descriptions monumentales de Paulin dans les 'carmina' 27 et 28: Le parcours d'un pèlerin privilégié à travers le complexe de Félix. La regard et la lumière dans le 'carmen' 27: Description monumentale et symbolique architecturale dans le carmen 28:

Keywords: Classical Philology, Basilica S. Felice, Literary Literature, Saint Paulinus Nola, Late Latin Poetry, Cimitile Italy, Early Christian, Architecture, Architectural, Meropius Paulinus