Summary 'Rewriting' as the reworking of narrative material based on conscious strategies of composition plays a significant role in much of the Latin poetry of Late Antiquity. This book, resulting from the conference Riscritture poetiche nell'Occidente latino tra tarda antichit e medioevo, which was held on 9-11 May 2022 at the Department of Human Sciences (DSU) of the University of L'Aquila, looks at the range of practices and purposes that inform this procedure, with particular regard to the processes of transcodification enacted - in different historical and cultural contexts - by the recasting of authoritative prose texts into a classicising poetic idiom. The contributions present a multifaceted approach to rewriting, cover a variety of authors, genres, and texts, and cast a glance also at medieval Latin literature. In short, the essays in this collection, by reflecting on the interpretative contribution of the critical category of 'rewriting', not only add further tesserae to the mosaic of literary studies on Late Latinity, they also invite to grasp the difference between secular and Christian rewritings. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction (Stefania Filosini) Late Latin Antiquity: Secular Rewritings Poetic Rewriting of Hylas: Dracontius, Romul. 2 (Salvatore Costanza) La r criture d'Ausone par Luxorius : enjeux et po tique (Florence Garambois-Vasquez) Forms of Martial's Reception in the Aenigmata Symposii (Marco Onorato) Late Latin Antiquity: Christian Rewritings 1. The Biblical Poetry Poetic Rewritings between Literature and Doctrine: Prudentius, Cathemerinon 5 (Fabio Gasti) La r criture vis e argumentative de la Bible. Le cas des m daillons bibliques du po me d'Orientius et du Carmen adversus Marcionitas (Ps.-Tert.) (Lucie Martin) Rewriting the Miracles: The Healing of the Man Blind from Birth in Sedulius (carm. pasch. IV. 251-270) (Stefania Filosini) The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus in Avitus of Vienne, carm. III. 220-310 (Franca Ela Consolino) R criture des discours des Actes des Ap tres chez Arator. Technique de la r criture et vis e pragmatique du texte (Bruno Bureau) 2. A Case Study on Biblical Poetry: The Heptateuchos Poem The Heptateuch Poet as a Battalist: Strategies of Epicisation in Battles Scenes and Military Speeches (Donato De Gianni) Per grandia tempora: Time and Temporal References in the Poem of the Heptateuchos (Francesco Lubian) Structure of the Narrative Sequences and Intratextual Links in the Heptateuchos Poem (Luciana Furbetta) Costruzione di una formularit epica interna nel poema dell'Heptateuchos. Studio di casi dell'Exodus: la teofania sul monte Horeb (Michele Cutino) 3. The Hagiographic Poetry La r criture po tique de la Vie de saint Martin par Paulin de P rigueux au miroir des genres litt raires (Sylvie Labarre) R flexions sur un exemple de r criture po tique : Paulin de P rigueux, Vie de saint Martin, V. 398-487 (Vincent Zarini) Poetic Rewriting with an Audience: Venantius Fortunatus' Life of St Martin and the Ladies of the Abbey Sainte-Croix in Poitiers (Lorenzo Livorsi) Beyond Late Antiquity Un siriaco tardo antico in riscrittura carolingia. L'attualizzazione dell'armonia evangelica di Taziano nel Heliand anticosassone (Wolfgang Haubrichs) Riscrivere i vangeli in volgare: il Liber evangeliorum e la tentazione di Cristo (Chiara Staiti) Isidore and the Wisdom of Gildas in the Vita Merlini (Francesco Marzella) Index The Authors