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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 …
Declamazione e letteratura
2015
This paper is a contribution to the most recent studies about the literature practised at the declamation schools, finding out its fictional aspect. In the first part, we will consider the importance and the risks of such a fictional value. We will go through some paragraphs of Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria (2, 10 and 10, 5); in fact, in this work, the author condemns some excesses, yet he keeps on considering declamation a good practice. In the second part of the paper, a particular case study will be proposed. We will focus on the character of the stepmother, according to the excerpta of Calpurnius Flaccus. We will also analyse four excerpts (4, 12, 22, 35), in which there is always a …
«Prendere ad esempio». Quando padri e figli sono innamorati (con una lettura di Sen. contr. ii 6)
2018
This paper investigates the theme of erotic rivalry between father and son in Roman declamation, particularly in Ps. Quint. decl. 356, Calp. decl. 37 and, especially, in Sen. contr. ii 6. The analysis emphasizes the decisive contribution of the comedy to outlining this kind of conflict, also interpreted according to Quintilian’s theoretical reflection on this scholastica materia.
Introduzione
2018
Introduzione al volume Eloquentiae itinera. Declamazione e cultura letteraria a Roma in età imperiale Introduction to the volume Eloquentiae itinera. Declamation and literary culture in Rome in the imperial age
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…
Le declamazioni minori attribuite a Quintiliano I (244-292)
2019
The volume includes a textual revision, the first Italian translation and a commentary on the Minor Declamations 244-292 ascribed to Quintilian. The commentary, non only addresses the many critical issues posed by a particularly complex text, but also exploits the results of the strand studies on declamation that has been flourished in the last 20 years involving rhetorical as well as literary and anthropological perspective. The introductory essay by Lucia Pasetti (coordinator of the PRIN project supporting the research) focuses on the issues of textual typology and relationship with literary and juridical tradition and addresses the thorny question of Quintilian authorship. Il volume cont…
Le Declamazioni Minori dello Pseudo-Quintiliano. Discorsi immaginari tra letteratura e diritto
2016
Dedicated to the Minor Declamations ascribed to Quintilian, this volume explores different aspects of this ancient school book: a manual introducing the reader to the daily work of a master rhetorician, as well as an instrument to explore ancient imagery and the close relationship connecting rhetoric, literature and law
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…