Pietro Angeli da Barga’s Syrias (1582–91) and Contemporary Debates over Epic Poetry
Pietro Angeli da Barga’s Syrias (1582–91) and Contemporary Debates over Epic Poetry
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彼得罗·安杰利·达·巴尔加的叙利亚 (1582â91) 和当代关于史诗的争论
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10.1163/9789004386402_013
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2018
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A. Winkler
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The Secondo Cinquecento in Italy was a period characterized by lively debates on poetics. 2 It witnessed the ‘rediscovery’of Aristotle’s Poetics as well as other important treatises on rhetoric and style, such as Ps.-Longinus’s De sublimitate, Ps.-Demetrius’s De elocutione, or Hermogenes’s De ideis, as well as a series of commentaries on these texts. 3 Moreover, a plethora of treatises, discourses, and other forms of scholarly debate were produced, which had a considerable impact on how people read, wrote, and talked about poetry. In the 16th century Italian context, most debates concerned vernacular literature, first and foremost Dante’s Divine Comedy, Petrarch’s Canzoniere, Guarini’s Pastor Fido, and Tasso’s and Ariosto’s chivalric and epic poetry, respectively. 4 These discussions dealt with vernacular literature and were held predominantly in vernacular contexts. It is no wonder that the Neo-Latin literature produced in Italy during this period rather stays in the background. However, Neo-Latin literature did not cease to be produced, nor did it remain uninfluenced by the discussions that have just been mentioned.A case in point is the following statement of Roberto Titi (1551–1609), professor of humanities at the University of Bologna. In one of his introductory lectures to his course on Virgil’s Georgics, held in 1597, Titi referred to the recent codification of literary discourse as something very useful for the learned: