Plautine sources of latin humanistic comedy "Annularia" (ca. 1500), by Egidio Gallo

Scholars agree on saying that Latin playwrights –chiefly Plautus– set the benchmark for the Latin humanistic comedy, shaping its plots, schemes, structures and language. Nonetheless it remains to be established exactly how and to what extent these two sources from the past molded the content and the shape of every particular humanistic comedy. In this paper we intend to verify how Plautus lexically and phraseologically influenced the Latin humanistic comedy Annularia (ca. 1500) by Egidio Gallo. Surprisingly, after thorough examination, this play looks almost like a bona fide Plautine cento.