La poetica delle nugae: Catullo in Sidonio

It is impossible to state with certainty whether Sidonius Apollinaris had, in his extremely rich library, those Catullan poems that circulated in Late Antiquity, even in narrow extent; nonetheless, it is hardly conceivable that the bishop of Arvernia was not interested in the world of the poet of Verona, transmitted through Sidonius’ major auctores – a world that he both admires and refuses, as can be inferred from his vocabulary.