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Adiaforia e vocazione al suicidio: motivi senecani e neostoici nella tragedia italiana fra Cinque e Seicento
No full textAdiaphory and the Vocation to Suicide: Themes from Seneca and Neostoicism in Sixteenth to Seventeenth-Century Italian Tragedy · The essay explores the diffusion of Neostoic motifs in the Italian tragedy of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with particular attention to the representation of suicide and the vocation of the protagonists to the adiaforia (detachment). Taking into account the French, Spanish and English situation, the author shows that the presence of Seneca as an aesthetic model does not always entail that the Italian playwrights share the Stoic principles, which are instead presented with greater conviction in republican contexts – and in particular in Genoa, where Ansaldo Cebà was active –, where the Neostoic writings were appreciated in particular from a theoretical-political point of view
La regina algida e l’insidia delle passioni. Note sul teatro di Antonia Fontana e Maria Antonia Scalera
No full textThe article focuses on the representation of passions in the dramatic plays of two late seventeenth-century female playwrights, Antonia Fontana and Maria Antonia Scalera. By examining Fontana’s musical drama Erginda (1680), performed in the Contarini estate in Piazzola sul Brenta, and Maria Antonia Scalera’s tragicomedy Il Coraspe redivo (1683) for the court of Ariccia, presided over by Agostino Chigi, the author individuates a similar approach to the stage of the female protagonist. Both plays, in giving shape to a frigid queen, allow in the end to accept love after a sort of sentimental education. They configure a new paradigm of woman, affected both by the tradition of seventeenth-century Venetian
female literature, and by Descartes’ Passions de l’âme, spread in Rome by Christina of Sweden
Republics in Comparison. Cross-cultural perspectives on Genoa, Venice and the United Provinces in Italian literature (1650–1699)
Full text linkItalian historiographers of the second half of the seventeenth century often establish parallels between early modern republics, comparing Genoa and Venice with the United Provinces, considered as similar political entities despite their evident political differences. The article, taking into account four different sources, investigates the meaning of
those comparisons, published when the absolutist model was taking root all around Europe. In the twilight of the republican state, when the power and reputation of the Italian republics was maybe at its weakest, those comparisons served both as a way to boost a supranational republican identity, and to question the strength of the classical republican constitution. This survey explores how these authors claim that, in order to survive in the Europe of absolute monarchies, those republics have to undergo a radical political change. Only by avoiding splitting the sovereignty among too many subjects, and reinforcing the monarchical element in their constitution, these republican states, no more based on the principle of equality, could compete in the new seventeenth-century political scenario. For this reason, Italian authors looked with great interest, and often celebrated the Dutch republic, considered a stronger government than that of Venice, even if it was regarded as an imperfect republic
Dal Pucino al Prosecchino. Appunti per una storia letteraria del vino Prosecco
Full text linkIl contributo mira a esaminare tutti quei testi letterari che dal Cinquecento ad oggi citano il vino Prosecco, un vino particolarmente celebrato nel Rinascimento perché ritenuto il discendente dell’antico Pucino lodato da Plinio il vecchio, e poi capace di assumere nel corso dei secoli molteplici identità. Esaminando la fortuna di questo vino nei testi letterari il presente saggio mira non soltanto a gettare nuova luce sulla storia del Prosecco, ma anche a mettere in rilievo il ruolo che la letteratura può svolgere nel valorizzare prodotti enologici e alimentari che hanno alle spalle una lunga e ricca storia
Le postille di Anton Maria Salvini e le note d’autore alla prima edizione della Bellezza della volgar poesia di Giovan Mario Crescimbeni
Full text linkPresso la Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Archivio di S. Maria in Cosmedin, XIII 13) è conservata una copia della PRINCEPS della BELLEZZA DELLA VOLGAR POESIA (1700) di Giovan Mario Crescimbeni, contenente numerose postille tradizionalmente attribuite all’autore. Il saggio mira a dimostrare come in realtà la maggior parte di quelle postille siano verga - te dal letterato toscano Anton Maria Salvini, nonché a esaminare come tali annotazioni incidano, a livello linguistico e teorico-letterario, nella preparazione, da parte di Crescimbeni, della seconda edizione del trattato, pubblicata nel 1712, appena dopo la «division d’Arcadia »
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