La sezione aurea del poema cavalleresco in Italia. Come un’ideologia di potere diventa romanzo popolare: alcune caute ipotesi

Abstract

A good title should speak for itself. And a subtitle, even better, center the subject is meant to treat, especially in a work as a doctoral thesis. Why, in fact, this is not a text that seeks a commercial purpose, but the systematic development of a research, covering an area of study that has tried to analyze the course of at least three years. The temptation, however, to "mine" the beautiful construct that seals the most fascinating among the truths of geometry and apply it to an idea, certainly not new, but it has stayed with me constantly during those years, was too strong . With the clear desire not to bore with explanations unnecessarily sophisticated, and without too overestimate this "idea", I can briefly say that, imagining the whole history of Italian literature, from its very first steps early Middle Ages, as a straight line, and the advent the press as the point which divides it into two segments of different lengths of time, it seemed to find in matter "of arms and of love", which accompanied closely, more than any other literary form, the development of social our literature, contributing decisively to spread in all strata of the population, with no difference of "caste", the constant that has allowed the proportion "divine" in the past, popular and aristocratic set, which was in danger of being forgotten and placed between the antiquities at the end of the sixteenth century, and the modern, through the insistent requests of what by now had become the "public" of the readers, could not and would not do without the poems of chivalry for a long time... [edited by author]