Girolamo Cicala’s collection was printed posthumously in Lecce in 1649. While it might initially seem to be the product of an out-of-season humanism, it actually serves as a significant case study. Seventeenth-century Latin poetry is often considered, at least in Italy, to be a counterbalance to the experimentalism found in the works of Giovan Battista Marino and his followers, or as a field of literature largely dominated by the Jesuits for didactic purposes. However, Girolamo Cicala’s Latin poems demonstrate that there was indeed a strand of Marinist poetry in Latin, characterized by the same novelty and experimentalism that defined poetry in Italian. Cicala reinterprets the metres and themes of the classical tradition, aligning them with the new poetic orientation, in harmony with southern Baroque lyricism, and as a testament to his belonging to the same geo-literary context.
A Case of marinistic Poetry in Latin: Girolamo Cicala's "Carmina".
Leone Marco
2025-01-01
Abstract
Girolamo Cicala’s collection was printed posthumously in Lecce in 1649. While it might initially seem to be the product of an out-of-season humanism, it actually serves as a significant case study. Seventeenth-century Latin poetry is often considered, at least in Italy, to be a counterbalance to the experimentalism found in the works of Giovan Battista Marino and his followers, or as a field of literature largely dominated by the Jesuits for didactic purposes. However, Girolamo Cicala’s Latin poems demonstrate that there was indeed a strand of Marinist poetry in Latin, characterized by the same novelty and experimentalism that defined poetry in Italian. Cicala reinterprets the metres and themes of the classical tradition, aligning them with the new poetic orientation, in harmony with southern Baroque lyricism, and as a testament to his belonging to the same geo-literary context.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
