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

Abstract

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.