Giovan Battista Valentino tra cronaca e poesia barocca
ISSN: 2611 - 1489
Language: Italian
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl
Description
Giovan Battista Valentino tra cronaca e poesia barocca
Giovan Battista Valentino (1614-1678 ca.), scribe of the Vicaria and poet in the Neapolitan language, interweaves satire and chronicle to tell the story of the transformations of Naples after the plague of 1656. In his poems in ottava rima, Napole scontraffatto dapò la peste (1668), La Mezacanna co lo Vasciello de l’Arbascia (1669) and La Cecala Napoletana (1674), he criticizes corruption, changing customs and literary servility, giving voice to a city in crisis and the progressive rise of the civil class. This volume reconstructs his figure and work, offering a critical analysis of his texts.
Author
Maria Di Maro is a researcher in Italian Literature at the Department of Human Sciences of the University of L’Aquila, where she teaches Teaching of Italian Literature and Ecocriticism and Italian Literature. Her research interests include poetry between the 16th and 17th centuries, women’s writing, literature in the Neapolitan language, and the relationships between literature, medicine, the arts, and other knowledge.
