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

Abstract

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.