This dissertation comprises the first study of the poetry of the Portuguese humanist Diogo de Teive (1513-14 – c. 1569). It examines and presents a scholarly edition of the Epithalamium which Teive composed on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Maria of Portugal to Alessandro Farnese in 1565. It also critically explores the work in which the poem was published, the Epodon libri tres (Lisbon, 1565). Because both this and the Epithalamium bring together different strands of Teive’s literary work, Chapter One analyses the development of his literary career, linking it to the ideological and cultural transformations which took place in Portugal from the 1540s to the 1560s, and the author’s attempt to carve his identity and space in the Portuguese literary scene. Chapter Two explores the concepts of ‘imitatio’ and ‘mimesis’ in the Epodon libri tres, shedding light on specific aspects of the Epithalamium. In the eyes of his readers, Teive emerges as a Catholic Horace. This is achieved by means of formal imitation, ‘aemulatio’, and allusion to Horace, a process whereby Teive introduces significant and ideologically motivated differences representative of the impact of Counter-Reformation upon literary writing. The ‘aemulatio’ of Prudentius’s Peristephanon in book II is to be understood in this light. Part Two engages with Teive’s comments on questions of verbal representation in the Epodon libri tres. Chapter Three analyses the Epithalamium from a generic perspective, arguing that it presents instances of generic enrichment, and that these are an example of the appropriation of occasional poetry for the purpose of authorial self-representation. One of the instances of generic enrichment is the incorporation of a didactic passage indebted to the tradition of the ‘speculum principum’, which is analysed in Chapter Four. Part One interprets the rewriting and appropriation of Plutarch and Erasmus as authorising strategies whereby Teive represents himself as an advisor of kings in the Epodon libri tres. Part Two discusses the author’s political thought and opinions, drawing from an analysis of the Epithalamium. Finally, Chapter Five comprises the study of the transmission of the poem, its metrical analysis, edition, translation, and commentary.

L’objectif principal de la thèse a été de fournir une révision de l'édition critique, avec une traduction et un commentaire des scholia du ps.Acron au quatrième livre des Carmina. Considérer le quatrième livre a répondu à l'exigence de déterminer une section 'indépendante' dans la production lyrique d'Horace.Le corpus pseudacronian se présente comme un ensemble de scholies à l'œuvre d'Horace pas reconductible à une individualité ou à un moment historique bien précis mais qui résulte comme la conséquence d'une stratification commencée au V siècle et qui a duré jusqu'au Moyen Age attribué de manière erronée à Elenius Acron, auteur du IIè siècle d.C.J'ai proposé des interventions critiques à l'édition de O. Keller publié pour la Teubneriana (Leipzig 1902).Dans la rédaction du commentaire, une grande importance a été conférée à l'évaluation des enquêtes littéraires dans le texte pseudacronian. L’étude comporte également une focalisation attentive sur les typologies de caractéristiques, très diffuses dans les commentaires anciens, grâce auxquels on peut déduire les compétences linguistiques, rhétoriques, littéraires, mythiques, historiennes.Le travail a été complété par un essai initial organisé en sections: la première partie concerne la réception du texte des auctores, et en particulier d'Horace, dans le contexte de l'école. Une seconde section concerne les caractéristiques du commentaire au quatrième livre des Carmina, illustratifs pour l'évaluation de la technique exégétique du ps.Acron. / The main objective of the thesis was that to provide a review of the critical edition, with a translation and a commentary of the scholia pseudacroniana on The Fourth Book of the Odes of Horace. In the vast field of the Horatian lyric, it's been considered un 'independent' section. The pseudacronian corpus looks like a jumble of Horace's scholia not due to an individuality or to a precise historic moment: they are the result of a stratification began in the fifth century and lasted until the Middle Ages, mistakenly attributed to Elenius Acron, author of the second century AD. Some critical interventions have been proposed to the edition of reference, that of O. Keller, published for the series Teubneriana (Pseudacronis Scholia in Horatium vetustiora, Leipzig 1902).During the draft of the commentary I've given great importance to the evaluation of the literary investigations proposed in the pseudacronian text. It's not even a careful focus on the types of notes, too, from which we deduce the linguistic, rhetorical, literary, mythical, historical competences. The work has been completed by an essay divided by sections: the first part concerning the receipt of the text of auctores, and in particular Horace, in the context of the school. The second section concerns the characteristics of the commentary on the fourth book of Odes, taken as an example for the evaluation of ps.Acron's exegetical technique.