La subscriptio di Turcio Rufio Aproniano Asterio nel Virgilio Mediceo. Postille, intertestualità ed esegesi dimenticate

The paper analyzes the subscriptio of the Virgilian manuscript, known as Mediceus, usually attributed to Asterius in its entirety, on the basis of the most recent studies on the subject. It is reached, through a linguistic and literary analysis, the proposal to consider the part in prose, the first two lines and the last two lines of the subscriptio as work of Asterius, and the twelve central verses as work of Macarius. This also involves a review of the punctuation of the central verses. Some seventeenth and eighteent- century interpretations of the same subscriptio, starting from some letters of G. Cuperus to N. Heinsius, are finally recovered.