Published 2017-12-21
Keywords
- Giorgio Caproni,
- macrotext,
- textual variants,
- intertextuality,
Abstract
The paper aims to propose a new reading of Giorgio Caproni’s Cronistoria beginning with the description of his macrotext and the changes it undergoes between the princeps and the definitive edition. In particular, the analysis of the variants relating to the order of the texts and their sources (above all Ariosto and Virgil) manifests the evolution of the bond between personal experience and historical context in the author’s poetry between the 1940s and the 50s, and the progressive strengthening of the relation between Cronistoria and his next book, Il passaggio d’Enea.
Corresponding author: Amelia Juri, Université de Lausanne, UNIL-Chamberonne (Bâtiment Anthropole), 1015 Lausanne, Svizzera. Email: amelia.juri@unil.ch