Commento al libro XXV di Tito Livio

The thesis offers a scientific commentary on book XXV of Ab Urbe Condita by Livy, which is still missing a modern critical textual commentary. The commentary, which refers to the entire book, is conducted ad locum, combining a content exegesis and a literary analysis. The individual components of the text (historical facts, Realien, stylistic-rhetorical, linguistic, juridical, religious, topographical aspects) are considered individually, but not in isolation, with the intention of giving an account of the compositional technique and Livian narrative construction. Moreover, the commentary devotes ample space to textual problems, starting with a comprehensive review of the manuscript tradition (the text of books XXI-XXV depends on the unique and corrupt tradition of Par. Lat. 5730) and the conjectures introduced by the editors. Given the lack of a repertoire of conjectures on the Livian text and the frequent difficulty of obtaining information on the dating and publication of the conjectures subsequent to the Drakenborch edition, the analysis of the loci critici also takes into account these proposals, if relevant for constitution of the text. The introduction to the commentary provides an overview of the topics presented in the book, considered in terms of historical content and organisational structure, and seen in the light of the entire decade.