Adone marino wikisource autobiography

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"secentismo." marino—'la lira'—'l'adone.' followers. chiabrera—the italian "canzone" and the classical ode—bernardo tasso—chiabrera's pindarics and "canzonette." testi.

tassoni—criticism of aristotle and petrarch—'la secchia rapita'—prose—galileo—d'avila—bentivoglio. germany—late influence of renaissance. precursors. opitz—theory and practice.

There his long poem Adone was published in He died at Naples on the 25th of March The licence, extravagance and conceits of Marini.

For Marino's experience as the favourite poet of Italy, caressed and flattered by cardinals and princes,The Adone, &c.

A Neapolitan poet who was born in Naples.

The original is taken from Giambattista Marino, Adone, ed.

The phrase ''sonnacchiosi orrori,'' however, occurs in Giambattista Marino's Adone , Alessandri's Linguaccio dates from

followers—fleming. hymns. drama—gryphius. satire—logau.

In studying the poetry of Italy^[1] in the seventeenth century, one finds oneself face to face with a phenomenon Secentismo. to which that much abused term decadence can be more intelligibly and legitimately applied than to anything in English or French poetry of the same period.

In the affectations of Marino and his contemporaries—and one may not except altogether Chiabrera and Tassoni—we see an art which, whatever its limitations, had &#;reached perfection, running to seed in the strained and feverish pursuit of