Paolo Loffredo, sixth generation of a large family of publishers and booksellers engaged in the production and distribution of books since the late nineteenth century, creates in 2012 the new editorial company Paolo Loffredo Editore. The historical site was until the '80s in the heart of the historic centre of Naples in Via San Biagio dei Librai, lower Decumano and also known as the SpaccaNapoli.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Giuseppe Loffredo decided to add book selling to the book production, which definitively imposed itself after World War II with the publication of manuals for the University and for the School that succeeded in establishing themselves soon throughout Italy.
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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.
