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Mock-heroic
Mock-heroic, mock-epic or heroi-comic works are typically satires or parodies that mock common Classical stereotypes of heroes and heroic literature. Typically, mock-heroic works either put a fool in the role of the hero or exaggerate the heroic qualities to such a point that they become absurd. History Historically, the mock-heroic style was popular in 17th-century Italy, and in the post- Restoration and Augustan periods in Great Britain. The earliest example of the form is the '' Batrachomyomachia'' ascribed to Homer by the Romans and parodying his work, but believed by most modern scholars to be the work of an anonymous poet in the time of Alexander the Great. A longstanding assumption on the origin of the mock-heroic in the 17th century is that epic and the pastoral genres had become used up and exhausted,Griffin, Dustin H. (1994) ''Satire: A Critical Reintroduction'p. 135/ref> and so they got parodically reprised. In the 17th century the epic genre was heavily crit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Secchia Rapita
''La Secchia Rapita'' (The sad kidnapped bucket) is a mock-heroic epic poem by Alessandro Tassoni, first published in 1622. Later successful mock-heroic works in French and English were written on the same plan. Background The invention of the heroic-comic poem in the Baroque period is usually ascribed to Alessandro Tassoni who, in 1622, published in Paris a poem entitled ''La Secchia Rapita''. Written in ottava rima, his "poema eroicomico" consists of twelve substantial cantos and deals with the regional rivalry between Ghibelline Modena and Guelph Bologna in the 14th century. To avoid giving offence in a still divided Italy, the book was first published from Paris under the name of Androvinci Melisone, but was soon afterwards reprinted in Venice with illustrations by Gasparo Salviani, and with the author’s real name. The subject of Tassoni's poem was the war which the inhabitants of Modena declared against those of Bologna, on the refusal of the latter to restore to them som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Malmantile Racquistato
''Il Malmantile racquistato'' (Malmantile Recaptured) is an Italian mock-heroic epic poem by Lorenzo Lippi (1606–65) first published posthumously in 1676. Plot The poem is mostly compounded out of a variety of popular tales; its principal subject matter is an expedition for the recovery of the castle of Malmantile by the troops of Baldone, who try to reestablish the righteous reign of Queen Celidora by overthrowing her usurper Bertinella, aided by the witch Martinazza. Background Lorenzo Lippi's ''Malmantile racquistato'' was published under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Perlone Zipoli. ''Il Malmantile racquistato'' is an Italian mock-heroic romance influenced by Alessandro Tassoni's '' La secchia rapita''. According to Filippo Baldinucci Lippi intended the ''Malmantile'' to be the reverse of Torquato Tasso's ''Gerusalemme Liberata'' ( Jerusalem Delivered). Lippi began to write the poem in 1644. The manuscript circulated in Florence during the latter years of the sevent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burlesque
A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects."Burlesque" ''Oxford English Dictionary'', , accessed 16 February 2011 The word is loaned from French and derives from the Italian ', which, in turn, is derived from the Italian ' – a joke, ridicule or mockery. Burlesque overlaps with , and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo De' Dottori
Carlo de' Dottori (; 9 October 1618 – 23 July 1686) is an Italian writer, best remembered for his autobiographical ''Confessioni'' and his tragedy ''Aristodemo'', considered by Benedetto Croce one of the masterpieces of Italian Baroque literature.Benedetto Croce, ''Storia dell’età'' ''barocca in Italia'' (Bari 1929), pp.248–253; and his critical edition (Florence 1948). Giovanna Da Pozzo, ‘Rassegna di studi su Carlo de’ Dottori 1985–1990’ in ''Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana'' 109 (1992), pp. 95–127. Biography Carlo de' Dottori was born in 1618 in Padua of a noble family. We know very little about his early life or education except for what he himself has to say in his works. Dottori received a thorough classical education. He attended the University of Padua, but he never completed his formal studies. He held several posts in different cultural-political Paduan institutions and frequented the Accademia Galileiana, the most important Paduan academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Lalli
Giovan Battista Lalli (1 July 1572 – 6 February 1637) was an Italian poet and jurist. He was the author of numerous mock-heroic poems among which ''La franceide'' and ''L'Eneide travestita'' are probably the best known. Biography Lalli was born in Norcia, Umbria, in 1572. He studied law in Parma and Perugia, where he obtained his doctoral degree in 1598. He served as governor of several little cities both in the Papal States and in the Duchy of Parma. His mock-heroic poems, ''La moscheide ouero Domiziano il moschicida'' (1624), recounting the Emperor Domitian's war against the assembled armies of flies, and ''La franceide'' ''ouero del mal francese'' (1629) adapted Marinist conceptismo to the comic repertory. His ''L'Eneide travestita'' (The Aeneid Disguised, 1633), a parody of the ''Aeneid'' of Virgil making fun of the feudal cult of heroes, was imitated in the '' Virgile travesti'' by Paul Scarron, which in turn inspired a whole series of adaptations both in Germanic and Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Tassoni
Alessandro Tassoni (28 September 156525 April 1635) was an Italian poet and writer, from Modena, best known as the author of the mock-heroic poem '' La secchia rapita'' (''The Rape of the Pail'', or ''The stolen bucket''). Life He was born in Modena, to a noble family, from Bernardino Tassoni and Sigismonda Pellicciari. Having lost both parents at an early age, he was raised by the maternal grandfather, Giovanni Pellicciari. It was with Giovanni that, according to tradition, he first visited the bucket, which was later to inspire his major work, in the belfry of Modena's Cathedral. At the age of 13, Alessandro Tassoni was taught Greek and Latin by Lazzaro Labadini, a professor of literature at the university. He then became a law student, attending university in Modena, then in Bologna, Pisa and Ferrara, where he eventually graduated. He appears to have been a rowdy youth, living for some time in Nonantola, from where he was expelled in 1595, due to several incidents in whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burlesque (literature)
A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects."Burlesque" ''Oxford English Dictionary'', , accessed 16 February 2011 The word is loaned from French and derives from the Italian ', which, in turn, is derived from the Italian ' – a joke, ridicule or mockery. Burlesque overlaps with , and |
Loreto Vittori
Loreto Vittori (5 September 1600 (baptized) – 23 April 1670) was an Italian castrato and composer. From 1622 until his death, he was a mezzo-soprano singer in the papal chapel in Rome. Life Vittori was born in Spoleto and educated in Rome. He then worked as a singer in Loreto and Spoleto. In 1618 Vittori was placed under the protection of the Medici family. He moved to Rome in 1621, first in the service of Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, nephew of Pope Gregory XV, and in 1632 in the service of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, nephew of the future Urban VIII. He died in Rome, aged 69. Vittori sang at the premiere of ''Lo Sposalizio di Medoro et Angelica'' by Jacopo Peri and Marco da Gagliano in 1619, possibly as Angelica. He was Saint Ursula in ''La Regina Sant'Orsola'' by Marco da Gagliano in 1624. Back in Rome, the man was Falsirena in '' La Catena d'Adone'' by Domenico Mazzocchi in 1626. In 1628, Vittori took an unknown role in '' La Flora, ovvero Il natal de' fiori'' (''Flor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Bracciolini
Francesco Bracciolini (; 26 November 1566 – 31 August 1645) was an Italian Late Renaissance poet. Biography Bracciolini was born of a noble family in Pistoia in 1566. On his removing to Florence he was admitted into the Accademia Fiorentina, and devoted himself to literature. At Rome he entered the service of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini. He followed Barberini to Paris, where published in 1605 the first cantos of his ''Croce'' ''Racquistata'' (The Recaptured Cross), an epic poem completed in 1611 and inspired by Torquato Tasso's ''Jerusalem Delivered''. After the death of Clement VIII he returned to his own country; and when his patron Barberini was elected pope, under the name of Urban VIII, Bracciolini repaired to Rome and was made secretary to the pope's brother, Cardinal Antonio Marcello Barberini. Bracciolini had also the honor conferred on him of taking a surname from the arms of the Barberini family, which were bees; whence he was afterwards known by the name of Braccioli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Cesare Cortese
Giulio Cesare Cortese (1570 in Naples, Kingdom of Naples – 22 December 1622 in Naples) was a writer and poet. Life Born to a well-to-do family, nothing is known of Cortese's early life, though it is thought that he was a schoolmate of Giambattista Basile. Receiving a degree in law, he tried life as a courtier in Spain and Florence, without any great success. Cortese apparently had some success in the Medici court as he was sent in 1599 to Spain as a member of a Medici delegation for the marriage of Philip III of Spain with Margherita of Austria. In his "Tuscan" rhymes there is a fruitless attempt to catch the attention of the Counts of Lemos, the foremost representatives of the Spanish crown in Naples. He was a close friend of Luigi Caponaro, who he frequently cites in his work. Regardless of his commemoration by Basile in 1627, it is generally believed, due to several handwritten manuscripts, that Cortese lived at least until 1640 and it is consequently believed that he atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parodies
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture). Literary scholar Professor Simon Dentith defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice". The literary theorist Linda Hutcheon said "parody ... is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music, theater, television and film, animation, and gaming. The writer and critic John Gross observes in his ''Oxford Book of Parodies'', that parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche ("a composition in another artist's manner, witho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batrachomyomachia
The ''Batrachomyomachia'' (, from , "frog", , "mouse", and , "battle") or ''Battle of the Frogs and Mice'' is a comic epic, or a parody of the ''Iliad''. Although its date and authorship are uncertain, it belongs to the classical period, as it was known to Plutarch. Its composition date was traditionally placed in the 5th century BC, but linguistic studies suggested the poem's origin in Ionia during the 3rd or 2nd century BC. A minority view considers it to be a Roman era-poem and attributes it to Lucian (2nd century AD). A manuscript from the High Middle Ages attributes the poem to Timarchus of Caria, who is otherwise unknown. He has been identified with either the tyrant Timarchus of Miletus (killed in 258 BC while serving in the Syrian Wars) or the usurper king Timarchus (killed in 160 BC while serving in the early phases of the Seleucid Dynastic Wars). Both men were thought to have originated in Miletus. The word ''batrachomyomachia'' has come to mean "a trivial alt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
