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Allegoria e travestimento in Torquato Tasso e Giovan Battista Marino
Abstract
How do Torquato Tasso and Giovan Battista Marino react to the vigilant and normative context between the 16th and 17th centuries? Two evasive tactics designed to safeguard lewdness and enchantment in the poems are considered, starting from the relationship the two authors had with norms and rules: allegory on the one hand, and disguise on the other. Tasso's path is evolutionary and his opinion changes according to the internalisation of laws and values that lead to a re-evaluation of his initial opinions, while Marino transgresses the rules and uses typically defensive elements - such as allegory - overturning them and inventing a concealed offensive use. In this context, the paratextual allegories of Marino's Adonis, hitherto ill-considered by critics, are thus re-evaluated, and the Tasso route is reconsidered from a perspective that sees the two authors not as victims of a censorial system, but as active participants.
Keywords
Allegory; inquisition; Torquato Tasso; Giovan Battista Marino; censorship.DOI
10.1515/9783110794113ISBN
9783110794113, 9783110791242, 9783110794274, 9783110794113Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2022Imprint
De GruyterSeries
Vigilanzkulturen / Cultures of Vigilance, 3Classification
Poetry
Literary studies: general
European history
History and Archaeology
c 1500 onwards to present day
Social and cultural history