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'Opera e declamazione teatrale in Italia nel Diciottesimo secolo. Convergenze e problemi'
2014
The fulfilment of the operatic reform, managed by Christoph Willibald Gluck and his librettist Ranieri Calzabigi in 1760s’ Vienna, is a well-known topic. This event, whose seeds date back to the 1740s, has been examined according to theatrical and literary experiences in France and Italy. However, the question of acting influence on opera can be reconsidered at the light of the latest discovery of symbols collected and labelled as drammatica – metodo italiano. Engraved in some writings, this set of signs is often connected to music and offers the matter for a new critical survey about the discourse on music declamation before and after Calzabigi. From the 1830s onwards the theory of acting …
The Reform of the Rappresentativa: Roots and Routes of a National Art
2015
Curated Panel: Italian Acting I explore the remarkable role that the reform of the old Rappresentativa played in the years of Risorgimento, and examine the differences of application of the declamatory symbols in the old Rappresentativa and in the New Style that is referred as la romantica, or Drammatica, analysing Gustavo Modena, Adelaide Ristori and Gaetano Gattinelli’s prompt books and works. Gustavo Modena reformed the old style of the Rappresentativa and was an unforgettable patriot of Risorgimento as well as Ristori and Gattinelli. I explain how Modena steered the drammatica along a new course in the first fifty years of the nineteenth century and shaped the method giving it the goal …
Sulle tracce di Ovidio epico? Contese tra padri e figli in Ps. Quint. decl. 258
2018
In the Minor Declamation 258 it is possible to notice some echoes of the Armorum iudicium of Ov. met. xiii 1-383, an episode whose success in Greece and Rome dates back to the Cyclic poems. Porcius Latro, the famous rhetorician and teacher of Ovid, chose this subject for one of his declamations and provided his pupil with a model: in fact, as showed by Sen. contr. ii 2, 8, the poet borrowed from the rhetor some literal expressions. We can also remember Sen. contr. x and Calp. decl. 21, two of the most important texts where the motifs of family disputes and reward for viri fortes are re-elaborated, in different ages. Therefore, the Minor declamation 258 is one of these interesting adaptation…
Come un figlio. Variazioni tematiche e modalità narrative. A proposito di sen. contr. 10, 2 e decl. min. 258
2016
Le declamazioni in lingua latina offrono un’amplissima selezione di temi riguardanti i rapporti padre-figlio. All’interno di questo nucleo, che si distingue per la ricca presenza di casi dalle innumerevoli varianti, si registra uno spunto, forse meno frequente ma di estremo interesse, che vede contrapposti un padre ed un figlio, i quali, su un campo di battaglia, si contendono il premio spettante al vir fortis. Su tale singolare profilo si intrecciano quindi da una parte le ragioni della conflittualità familiare, dall’altra quelle del valore e dell’etica in contesti bellici. Al centro dell’indagine sono dunque la controversia 10, 2 della raccolta di Seneca il Vecchio e la versione, che part…
The Eighteenth-century Opera and the Search for a Meeting Point between Music and Declamation
2019
The article is the result of some researches about the ideas on the operatic reform appeared in Italy and France from 1740s onwards. On the basis of acting, some treatises written by actors, philosophers and musicographers claim the dramatic superiority of recitativo secco or obbligato, and the beauty of aria parlante. (e.g., L. Riccoboni, Dell’arte rappresentativa, 1728, G. Manfredi, L’attore in scena, 1734, G. R. Carli, L’indole del teatro tragico, 1746, and Osservazioni sulla musica antica e moderna, 1744-1786, G. Tartini, Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell’armonia, 1754, F. Algarotti, Saggio sopra l’opera in musica, 1755). Owing to its particular speaking tone linked to dec…
Il gravis morbus degli scholastici. Esempi tratti dalla storia (e dall’arte) nell’opera di Seneca il Vecchio
2021
Within a broader reflection on the presence of history in declamatory literature, the paper deals with some of Seneca’s controversies in which the thema concerns undisputed protagonists of ancient art, observing the way in which declaimers converge within the fields of interest of the school fundamental reflections on issues related to art and the role of the artist.
Lo spazio della città nelle declamazioni in lingua latina
2018
Latin declamations offer an extraordinary perspective to measure some spatial categories, such as, for example, the one concerning the 'scenography' that is the background on which the protagonists of the declamations move. In this sense emerges the fundamental role of the city as a place that, even in the indefiniteness that distinguishes these texts, not only animates the actions of the protagonists but frequently motivates their behavior.
Sic astra mereri. Un’analisi della Controversia de statua viri fortis di Draconzio
2017
Nel contesto dell’Africa vandalica del quinto secolo si distingue una singolare reviviscenza degli studi retorici e, segnatamente, declamatori. Sotto questo profilo, emerge con particolare rilievo uno dei Romulea di Draconzio; si tratta del numero 5 della raccolta, dal titolo Controversia de statua viri fortis. Nel componimento, una esercitazione retorica elaborata in versi esametrici, l’autore riattualizza un motivo topico delle scuole di declamazione, il contrasto tra un dives ed un pauper, arricchendolo di molteplici stratificazioni letterarie, da Virgilio a Lucano soprattutto, che tuttavia non celano lo straordinario interesse draconziano ad intestarsi un certo aggiornamento delle prati…
Eloquentiae itinera. Declamazione e cultura letteraria a Roma in età imperiale
2018
Curatela del volume Eloquentiae itinera. Declamazione e cultura letteraria a Roma in età imperiale