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In this detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in post-Classical
times, Carlo Caruso provides an overview of the main texts, both
literary and scholarly, in Latin and in the vernacular, which
secured for the Adonis myth a unique place in the Early Modern
revival of Classical mythology. While aiming to provide this
general outline of the myth's fortunes in the Early Modern age, the
book also addresses three points of primary interest, on which most
of the original research included in the work has been conducted.
First, the myth's earliest significant revival in the age of
Italian Humanism, and particularly in the poetry of the great Latin
poet and humanist Giovanni Pontano. Secondly, the diffusion of
syncretistic interpretations of the Adonis myth by means of
authoritative sixteenth-century mythological encyclopaedias.
Thirdly, the allegorical/political use of the Adonis myth in G.B.
Marino's (1569-1625) "Adone," published in Paris in 1623 to
celebrate the Bourbon dynasty and to support their legitimacy with
regard to the throne of France.
Italy's original fascination with its cultural origins in Greece
and Rome first created what is now known as 'the Classical
tradition' - the pervasive influence of ancient art and thought on
later times. In response to a growing interest in Classical
reception, this volume provides a timely reappraisal of the Greek
and Roman legacies in Italian literary history. There are fresh
insights on the early study of Greek and Latin texts in
post-classical Italy and reassessments of the significance attached
to ancient authors and ideas in the Renaissance, as well as some
innovative interpretations of canonical Italian authors, including
Dante, Petrarch and Alberti, in the light of their ancient
influences and models. The wide range of essays in this volume -
all by leading specialists - should appeal to anyone with an
interest in Italian literature or the Classical tradition. Italy's
early fascination with its Hellenic and Roman origins created what
is now called 'the classical tradition'. This book focuses on the
role of the Greek and Latin languages and texts in Italian humanist
thought and Renaissance poetry: how ancient languages were mastered
and used, and how ancient texts were acquired and appropriated.
Fresh perspectives on the influences of Aristotle, Plutarch and
Virgil accompany innovative interpretations of canonical Italian
authors - including Dante, Petrarch and Alberti - in the light of
their classical models. Treatments of more specialized forms of
writing, such as the cento and commentary, and some opening
chapters on linguistic history also prompt reassessment of
Renaissance perceptions of both Greece and Rome in relation to
early modern Latin and vernacular culture. The collection as a
whole highlights the importance of Italy's unique legacy of
antiquity for the history of ideas and philology, as well as for
literary history. The essays in this volume, all by leading
specialists, are supplemented by a detailed introduction and a
subject bibliography.
The textual foundations of works of great cultural significance are
often less stable than one would wish them to be. No work of Homer,
Dante or Shakespeare survives in utterly reliable witnesses, be
they papyri, manuscripts or printed editions. Notions of textual
authority have varied considerably across the ages under the
influence of different (and differently motivated) agents, such as
scribes, annotators, editors, correctors, grammarians, printers and
publishers, over and above the authors themselves. The need for
preserving the written legacy of peoples and nations as faithfully
as possible has always been counterbalanced by a duty to ensure its
accessibility to successive generations at different times and in
different cultural contexts. The ten chapters collected in this
volume offer critical approaches to such authors and texts as
Homer, the Bible, The Thousand and One Nights, Dante, Montaigne,
Shakespeare, Eliot, but also Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts
uniquely combining word and image, as well as Beethoven's 'Tempest'
sonata (Op. 31, No. 2) as seen from the angle of music as text.
Together the contributors argue that an awareness of what the 'life
of texts' entails is essential for a critical understanding of the
transmission of culture.
In this detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in post-Classical
times, Carlo Caruso provides an overview of the main texts, both
literary and scholarly, in Latin and in the vernacular, which
secured for the Adonis myth a unique place in the Early Modern
revival of Classical mythology. While aiming to provide this
general outline of the myth's fortunes in the Early Modern age, the
book also addresses three points of primary interest, on which most
of the original research included in the work has been conducted.
First, the myth's earliest significant revival in the age of
Italian Humanism, and particularly in the poetry of the great Latin
poet and humanist Giovanni Pontano. Secondly, the diffusion of
syncretistic interpretations of the Adonis myth by means of
authoritative sixteenth-century mythological encyclopaedias.
Thirdly, the allegorical/political use of the Adonis myth in G.B.
Marino's (1569-1625) Adone, published in Paris in 1623 to celebrate
the Bourbon dynasty and to support their legitimacy with regard to
the throne of France.
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