Fratelli ‘latini’. Su alcune citazioni classiche nel capolavoro di Alberto Arbasino

The numerous literary texts quoted in Alberto Arbasino’s Fratelli d’Italia include a vast number of Latin authors, such as Petronius, Catullus, Persius, Juvenal, Horace, Martial and Macrobius, which Arbasino modified and enriched in the four editions of his work. This article aims to show how Arbasino integrated Classical texts in a context/cotext of modern avant-garde, and discusses their importance for the contemporary Italian writer.