Politics, prophecy and satire: Atto of Vercelli's Polipticum quod appellatur Perpendiculum
Giacomo Vignodelli
This article presents a new interpretation of Atto Vercelli's Perpendiculum: this cryptic work, composed between 953 and 960, is peroration that adopts the structural model classical oratio, identifying usurpations as cause political problems post‐Carolingian Europe. The text's aim to denounce usurpation later led Otto I definitively deprive Berengar II his throne. author's discourse prophetic warning based on an eschatological reading history Italian kingdom in first half tenth century, analysed depth by Atto. crimes powerful are condemned allusive style satirical poets, within work considerable cultural ambition. source adds significantly our knowledge conveys specific assertion role episcopate.
Early Medieval Europe