MINIMA EPIGRAPHICA DALLE ALPES COTTIAE IN MEMORIA DI JACQUES DEBERGH - SU UN CARMEN EPIGRAPHICUM CRISTIANO DALLA NOVALESA

Abstract

Minima epigraphica from the Cottian Alps in memory of Jacques Debergh.

On a christian carmen epigraphicum from the Novalesa abbey.

The author dedicates the present work to the late Belgian student Jacques Debergh, in reminiscence of his authoritative studies on the Cottian Alps and on Segusio in ancient times. Three fragments from a Christian inscription found in the area of Novalesa Abbey are identified as a funerary carmen in two elegiac distichs which invokes, against the background of the Day of Judgement, the infinite mercy of God.