Alessandro Tassoni’s mock-heroic poem La secchia rapita (1622) and Francesco Redi’s dithyramb Bacco in Toscana (1685) are among the most influential seventeenth-century texts accompanied with exegetic notes written by their respective authors. Tassoni’s ‘Dichiarazioni’ (‘Explanations’) were included in the definitive version of his poem (Venice, 1630) and responded – in very personal and often idiosyncratic fashion – to reactions generated by the poem’s previous circulation in manuscript and in print. The eccentric attitude is even more pronounced in Redi’s ‘Annotazioni’ to his Bacco in Toscana, although in an altogether different tone and for a different purpose. Words and phrases are singled out with extravagant selectivity to display the author’s erudition in a wide range of fields, notably etymology and historical linguistics. The dominant digressive mode makes Redi’s commentary virtually a stand-alone text, where the obligation to elucidate the main text is only occasionally and capriciously fulfilled.

Caruso, C. (2019). Mockery and Erudition: Alessandro Tassoni’s ‘Secchia rapita’ and Francesco Redi’s ‘Bacco in Toscana’. In F. Venturi (a cura di), Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature, 1400-1700 (pp. 395-419). Leiden : Brill.

Mockery and Erudition: Alessandro Tassoni’s ‘Secchia rapita’ and Francesco Redi’s ‘Bacco in Toscana’

Caruso, Carlo
2019-01-01

Abstract

Alessandro Tassoni’s mock-heroic poem La secchia rapita (1622) and Francesco Redi’s dithyramb Bacco in Toscana (1685) are among the most influential seventeenth-century texts accompanied with exegetic notes written by their respective authors. Tassoni’s ‘Dichiarazioni’ (‘Explanations’) were included in the definitive version of his poem (Venice, 1630) and responded – in very personal and often idiosyncratic fashion – to reactions generated by the poem’s previous circulation in manuscript and in print. The eccentric attitude is even more pronounced in Redi’s ‘Annotazioni’ to his Bacco in Toscana, although in an altogether different tone and for a different purpose. Words and phrases are singled out with extravagant selectivity to display the author’s erudition in a wide range of fields, notably etymology and historical linguistics. The dominant digressive mode makes Redi’s commentary virtually a stand-alone text, where the obligation to elucidate the main text is only occasionally and capriciously fulfilled.
2019
978-90-04-39659-3
Caruso, C. (2019). Mockery and Erudition: Alessandro Tassoni’s ‘Secchia rapita’ and Francesco Redi’s ‘Bacco in Toscana’. In F. Venturi (a cura di), Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature, 1400-1700 (pp. 395-419). Leiden : Brill.
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