Varia historia ovvero "come vendere la Città" (Vario Rufo tra politica e poesia da Virgilio a Lucano)
The aim of this paper is to offer a study on L. Varius Rufus and his works (especially the poem De morte), seen mainly in their strict relation with some fundamental authors and texts of Augustan poetry: Virgil’s Bucolics, Georgics, and Aeneid; Horace’s Sermones and Carmina; Propertius 2.34 (new arguments are also proposed in favour of the identification Lynceus = Varius in this elegy). Varius’s reinterpretation, especially in Virgil, has been often considered a typical example of ‘arte allusiva’ (virtually from Macrobius to G. Pasquali).