John F. Miller

This paper analyzes the intertextuality between the competition among the Muses over the aetiology of April in the Sacri Fasti of the Renaissance Latin poet Ambrogio Novidio Fracco and on the one hand Ovid’s similar scene at the start of Book 5 of his Fasti and on the other the poet’s spirited defense of Venus against an alternative aition in Fasti 4...