This study deals with Italian and French travesties of the Aeneis published in the 17th century. These works imitate Virgil's authoritative text in a way that is discrepant to its original form. Travesty as a special kind of disjunctive transformation of antiquity thereby reveals the conflict between provocative transgression and the persistence of traditional poetics in the Early Modern Age.

Kai Schöpe, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies/Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.