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This book aims to show the metamorphic nature of Ovid´s reception in twentieth-century Italian literature. It is a study of the aesthetic effects of Ovid´s poetics within both the novel and poetry tradition in Italy. By using a historical and philological methodology, the authors of each essay have shown the hermeneutic power of Ovid, read as a constant intertextual presence. From Giovanni Pascoli to Eugenio Montale, from Italo Calvino to Antonio Tabucchi, in this book Ovid´s reception is finally shown to be as important as Virgil´s and offers new important tools in order to understand the role of Latin literature in the twentieth century.

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