Laus Virgiliana et invention mythologique L’élégie Eridanus I, 14 de Giovanni Pontano ou la célébration d’un poeta fortunatus

In the elegy I, 14 of his collection entitled Eridanus, Pontano devises an etiological tale about Virgil’s birth. The study aims at demonstrating that, beyond the celebration of the Mantuan poet, the humanist delivers under the veil of myth a fully developed reflection on destiny. The confrontation of elegy I, 14 with his treatise De fortuna allows to distinguish this meditation on poetical genius and, more generally, on existence that thus finds an exceptional illustration.