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Tradition and Reception of Roman Imperial Ethics in the Opera La clemenza di Tito

Tradition and Reception of Roman Imperial Ethics in the Opera La clemenza di Tito Tradition and Reception of Roman Imperial Ethics in the Opera La clemenza di Tito Werner Wunderlich, Laura Shropshire, John Burt Foster Jr., Martin Winkler The Comparatist, Volume 25, May 2001, pp. 5-21 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2001.0022 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415324/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:24 GMT from JHU Libraries ??? COHPAnATIST TRADITION AND RECEPTION OF ROMAN IMPERIAL ETHICS IN THE OPERA LA CLEMENZA DI TITO Werner Wunderlich I. Fingiti in mente Eroe più generoso, e più clemente. [...] Inútil chiama, perduto il giorno ei dice, in cui fatto non ha qualcun felice. (Mozart, Clemenza I, Recitative) ViteUia, to whom these Unes are addressed in Mozart's opera La clemen- za di Tito, is told to imagine a milder and more generous hero, one who says that the day on which he has made no one happy is useless and lost. This patriotic and friendly song of praise to the Roman emperor Tito (Titus) and his goodness is sung by Sesto (Sextus), his favorite and confidant. He cites the famous dictum "Amici, diem perdidi," the apo- thegm of hyperbolic self-characterization that had been attributed to Titus Flavius Vespasianus Caesar http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Tradition and Reception of Roman Imperial Ethics in the Opera La clemenza di Tito

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Tradition and Reception of Roman Imperial Ethics in the Opera La clemenza di Tito Werner Wunderlich, Laura Shropshire, John Burt Foster Jr., Martin Winkler The Comparatist, Volume 25, May 2001, pp. 5-21 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2001.0022 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415324/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:24 GMT from JHU Libraries ??? COHPAnATIST TRADITION AND RECEPTION OF ROMAN IMPERIAL ETHICS IN THE OPERA LA CLEMENZA DI TITO Werner Wunderlich I. Fingiti in mente Eroe più generoso, e più clemente. [...] Inútil chiama, perduto il giorno ei dice, in cui fatto non ha qualcun felice. (Mozart, Clemenza I, Recitative) ViteUia, to whom these Unes are addressed in Mozart's opera La clemen- za di Tito, is told to imagine a milder and more generous hero, one who says that the day on which he has made no one happy is useless and lost. This patriotic and friendly song of praise to the Roman emperor Tito (Titus) and his goodness is sung by Sesto (Sextus), his favorite and confidant. He cites the famous dictum "Amici, diem perdidi," the apo- thegm of hyperbolic self-characterization that had been attributed to Titus Flavius Vespasianus Caesar

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