Story of a motto of love and friendship/Attilio Motta

'Hyeme et aestate, prope et procul, usque dum vivam et ultra', or 'In winter and summer, near and far, as long as I live and beyond'. Marsilio's essay 'Storia di un motto d'amore e di amicizia "Usque dum vivam et ultra"' (History of a motto of love and friendship "Usque dum vivam et ultra") by Attilio Motta from Lecce, professor of Italian Literature at the University of Padua, investigates the fortunate history of these words. The book is presented at the Bernardini Library, in collaboration with the Palmieri bookshop. Chiara Coluccia, who teaches Italian linguistics at the University of Bologna, dialogues with the author. With philological passion, Motta follows the traces of the lucky Latin motto, starting from the pages of "Daniele Cortis" by Antonio Fogazzaro and "Una questione privata" by Beppe Fenoglio. He proceeds backwards, through the epigraphs of two lost monuments, looking for its origins in 18th-century classicism and before that in the Renaissance iconography of friendship, all the way back to medieval didacticism. The essay examines the extraordinary spread of the motto between the 19th and 20th centuries, taken up by Ada Negri to Pirandello, Jolanda to Buonaiuti, Brecht to Elsa Morante.

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