Together with "Critical Notes on Virgil" (De Gruyter 2016), this volume offers an enlightening complement to the critical text of the Georgics and the Aeneid recently published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana. In "Virgilian Parerga: Textual Criticism and Stylistic Analysis" can be seen the progress owed to the insight of four of the finest scholars of the past (Heinsius, Heyne, Ribbeck and Sabbadini). The first chapters trace the steps of the arduous path that from the middle of the 17th century on led these outstanding erudites to free themselves from the uulgata and compose a new critical text for the works of Virgil. The later chapters tackle important questions of textual criticism and Virgilian style, and propose new answers to inveterate exegetic problems. The volume ends with an interesting theoretical discussion on the methodological principles that combine the rules of philology with those of law. Here the author questions the logical assumptions that dominate not only the philological process but also the judicial one.

• Preface 6
• Table of Contents 8
• Heinsius as Editor of Virgil 10
• Christian Gottlob Heyne as a Virgilian Textual Critic 25
• Ribbeck and Sabbadini as Editors of Virgil 41
• Original Readings in More Recent Manuscripts of the Aeneid 55
• Four Textual Notes on the Aeneid (9. 85–86; 9. 79; 10. 366–367; 12. 218) 67
• A Hallmark of Virgil’s Style: Syntactic Coordination in the Aeneid 76
• An Aporetic Discussion. On A. 4. 436 91
• The Gates of Sleep. On A. 6. 893–898 95
• Addendum 101
• Bibliography 116
• Index of Names 122
• Index locorum 124