Nuova Rivista di Letteratura Italiana

Introduction

Giovanni Ferroni, Ester Pietrobon — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Printing Horace’s Odes in Italy (XV-XVII centuries)

Antonio Iurilli — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The history of reception of Horace’s Odes in early modern Italy can be seen as a result of the intertwining of the initiative of printers and the interest in the forms of poetry. By focusing on some relevant cases of study, dating from Roman humanism to the Baroque and going form the vernacular translation of the Odes to their setting to music, this contribution aims to highlight the taste for Horaces’s lyric poetry and its changing.

Radical Classicism? The Ode between Trissino, Alamanni, Minturno and Tolomei

Francesco Davoli — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The essay traces back the first attempts to introduce the Pindar and Horatian odes in the vernacular, examining some of the poems by Giovan Giorgio Trissino, Luigi Alamanni and Antonio Minturno, and the odes contained in the Versi et regole – the 1539 print that collects the production in barbaric metrics of Claudio Tolomei and his Accademia della Virtù – from a metrical point of view, in order to pinpoint similarities and differences between these authors and to verify to what extent their operation can be defined as radically classicistic.

The ode in the Venetian context of the mid-sixteenth century: general notes

Martina Dal Cengio — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The essay analyses the fortune and forms of the ode in the mid-sixteenth-century Veneto scene. The main directions are then traced, to be contextualised within a precise network of influences, which include the rediscovery of Greek and Latin poetry, as well as the role of contemporaries, both on the Italian side (first and foremost Bernardo Tasso), and on the French side, with reference to Pierre de Ronsard. Through a close examination of some exemplary cases, classical remakes, encomiastic and love odes, and the sacred tradition of psalmic inspiration are then reviewed.

Forms of the ‘ode’ in Gabriello Chiabrera’s poetry

Matteo Navone — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The study analyses the evolution of Gabriello Chiabrera’s odes, comparing the poetic texts with the theoretical statements scattered in dialogues, paratexts and letters. The path of the poet’s metrical experimentation is examined, from the first odes in Horatian six- and four-verse stanzas to the Pindaric stanzas divided into strophe, antistrophe and epode. Particular attention is paid to the latter typology, whose musicable characteristics and connections with Barberini’s classicism are also investigated.

The «theatre of the world» of a Venetian Horace: on the book of Odes by Guido Casoni

Ester Pietrobon — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Guido Casoni’s Ode are the first book of Italian vernacular rhymes to be entirely inspired by the model of Horace, understood as an element of modern classicism in dialogue with the lyric books and poems by Bernardo and Torquato Tasso, Giovan Battista Marino and Antonio Bruni. The essay traces the editorial history of the collection and reflects on the emergence of such founding concepts of Casoni’s classical-baroque poetics as friendship, serious hinting and the dissemination of knowledge, the competition between sister arts, and the relationship between artistic creation and divine Creation.

Internal structures and thematic lines in Fulvio Testi’s Poesie liriche (1627)

Giacomo Comiati — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article explores the work Poesie liriche by Testi, beginning with an analysis of its internal structure. The collection is organized in a circular fashion, as evidenced by the strong connections between its opening and closing odes, as well as the first and last odes of each of the two parts in which the book is divided. The article examines several important themes that recur throughout the odes, including the pursuit of virtue, the immortalising power of poetry, and reflections on poetics, which contribute to the collection’s sense of thematic unity. Finally, the essay focuses on Testi’s reception of both Horace and other poets (such as Propertius, Tibullus, and Della Casa).

«Dello svolgimento dell’ode in Italia»

Carmela Marranchino — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The contribution reconstructs the history of the essay Dello svolgimento dell’ode in Italia, which first appeared in 1902, making partial recourse to Carducci’s activity as poet, critic and professor. Particular attention is given to the analogies between the essay’s content and the lectures that Carducci held at the University of Bologna between January and May 1890. It also points out the strong influence on Carducci’s reflections of his earlier editorial works, on the one hand, and the experimentalism already typical of his youthful verses, on the other.