Gabriela E. DIMA (Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași)
UN EPISOD DIN ISTORIA ROMEI LA ÎNCEPUTURILE TEATRULUI ROMÂNESC: VIRGINIA DE VITTORIO ALFIERI
Keywords: Livy, tiranny, freedom, Aristia, translation.
Abstract: An episode of Roman History at the Beginnings of the Romanian Theatre: Virginia by Vittorio Aliferi. In 1836, Constantin (Costache) Aristia published in Bucharest, at the printing house of Ion Heliade Rădulescu, two translations of Vittorio Alfieri’s tragedies, Virginia and Saul, which he staged with the aim of awakening the Romanians’ longing for freedom. The subject of Virginia is taken by Alfieri from the history of Livy, following the Latin text with remarkable fidelity and developing its anti-tyrannical component. The present paper traces the way in which Livy’s episode reaches the Romanian language through the poetic-dramatic achievement of the Italian writer.