Nuovi percorsi esegetici tassiani

Abstract

The PhD thesis, New Taxi Exegetical Pathways, deals first of all with the arrangement and study of bibliographic material, which was necessary for the drafting of the research project, not only in the Library and the journal fund of the University of Salerno, but also in the Vatican Apostolic Library and in the Library of the "Centro di Studi Tassiani" of Bergamo. The retrieval of these texts was fundamental for the articulation of the structure of work, which presents as an introductory part the variegated framework of poetic production, particularly lyrical, of the 16th century, with precise references to the history, forms and canons of the madrigal, from the first to the late Renaissance. The poetic motifs inspired by the Neoplatonic conception of beauty have also been investigated, compared with the topical elements of the Italian poetic tradition and merged with some fundamental themes, such as the multiformity, the mutability and the multiplicity of the manifestations of beauty, components emblematically embodied by the god Proteus , a key figure in the entire series of madrigals, so congenial to the poetics of Tasso as to inform numerous areas of his entire production. The texts have been explored, from a methodological point of view, according to a dynamic dimension, bringing into dialogue both the previous textual history with the provisional manuscript crystallization, and the subsequent one. Moreover, this optic was useful both for the data relating to the structure and for those relating to the revision process, especially to describe how the first lines originally represent some of the peculiarities of the wider taxi-opera lyrical laboratory... [edited by Author]