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Utopie egualitarie e riformismo illuminato nella Carestia di Domenico Tempio
La Carestia of the Sicilian poet Domenico Tempio is an allegorical satirical poem that fits into the tradition of southern enlightened reformism, feeding the utopia of peace and social egalitarianism. The article analyzes some frame of the work to grasp the thrust for the renewal of eighteenth-century poetry, through a stylistic use of the poetic language that oscillates between coloriture markedly expressionist and equally visible traces of formal classicism.
Dimorare con le voci degli antichi. La biblioteca nel Malpiglio secondo di Torquato Tasso
In the dialogue Il Malpiglio secondo overo del fuggir la moltitudine, Tasso stages the dialogue between Forestiero Napolitano and Giovanlorenzo Malpiglio, son of Vincenzo Malpiglio, a gentleman of the court of Ferrara. The dialogue focuses on the function of the oratories, poets and of philosophers. The library of the young Malpiglio, located at the highest point of the house, in the most central place of the city, in fact it is not only the emblematic space of the identity recognition of the courteous gentleman and of his erudite education; it becomes the space of an uninterrupted dialogue with the voices of the authors, with which the reader entertains himself, appreciating order and vagu…
IL PURGATORIO: la cantica della nostalgia
Starting from the aesthetic and critical judgments that the twentieth century expressed on the second canticle of Dante’s poem, the essay traces the most famous metaphors and images through the lens of stylistic, linguistic and thematic analysis