Il re del Carnevale? Raccontare i miti a Weimar
Between 1927 and 1928 two curious studies were published in Germany with an
historical-religious issue: Historische Psychologie des Karnevals by Florens Christian
Rang, and a volume of dialogues – retracing the structure of the Macrobio’s Saturnalia
– by Werner Hegemann, Der gerettete Christus, oder Iphigenies Flucht vor
dem Ritualopfer. In both texts we fi nd the theme of the “king of the Saturnalia”,
which – based on previous fragile conjectural interpretations by James George