Tra continuità e frattura: La poetica della novità di Giovan Battista Marino

How can we appropriately describe Giovan Battista Marino’s very complex and ambiguous poetics? Torn between strong modernity claims on the one hand and literary tradition as its original starting point on the other, it resists simplistic classifications such as rupture versus continuity. We can in fact identify various convergences, divergences, and hybridizations between literary past and present, which clearly shows us that even an apparently revolutionary poetic...