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The Metamorphoses of Lucretia - Three Eighteenth-Century Reinterpretations of the Myth: Carlo Goldoni, Samuel Richardson and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Paperback, New edition)
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The Metamorphoses of Lucretia - Three Eighteenth-Century Reinterpretations of the Myth: Carlo Goldoni, Samuel Richardson and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Paperback, New edition)
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The virtuous Roman matron Lucretia killed herself in 509 b. C. Her
death is considered the cause of the Roman revolt against the
Tarquins and the mainspring of the passage from the monarchic to
the republican age. It is a myth about private and public
dimensions: it tells about woman and revolution. Its themes,
permanent features and variations are infinite. The metamorphoses
of Lucretia are innumerable. Nonetheless, she has always preserved
her essence and profound meaning, thus confirming her strength and
her being a true myth. Lucretia has crossed the centuries, she has
been told, painted and sung by artists from 509 b. C. until today.
She reached the Eighteenth Century, Italy, Great Britain and
Germany and she met three great authors: Carlo Goldoni, Samuel
Richardson and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. They chose her and decided
to tell her story, each in his own peculiar manner. Goldoni wrote a
dramma giocoso in musica, Lugrezia Romana in Costantinopoli,
Richardson a novel, Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady and
Lessing a burgerliches Trauerspiel entitled Emilia Galotti. One
myth, three authors, three different literary genres: this work
would like to investigate and verify the connection among them and
the meaning of it. The comparative analysis of the metamorphoses of
Lucretia will disclose new concepts of private and public, of woman
and revolution, sprung from an old but perpetual reviving myth.
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