Presenza di Virgilio nel carme Gratulatio pro victoria serenissimi regis Castillae di Gabriele Altilio

Gabriele Altilio is known more for the literary homages Pontano paid to him in his verses than for his own works, though an important moment of the Pontanian Academy’s literary achievements. This paper focuses on the description of a firework display that took place in Naples to celebrate the reconquest of Granada, modelled after the Aeneid, II: Troy on fire is reshaped to describe the Neapolitan fireworks and thus provide, too, the epic tone to praise the local Aragonese dynasty.