SIRACUSA

Anna Cerbo

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-233-5

SIRACUSA

Authors

Anna Cerbo

University of Naples L'Orientale

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-233-5

Keywords:

prosimeter, piscatory tale, eclogues, short stories, spiritual poem

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Romance section annals - Texts

Pages: 282

Language: Italian

NBN:

Abstract: The publication provides a critical edition of Siracusa, a piscatorial story, by Paolo Regio (published in Naples in 1569). The work, a unique imitation of Arcadia by Sannazaro and Egloghe pescatorie by Bernardino Rota, is a prosimetrum: it contains eleven versified eclogues and twelve novellas in prose, connected by a narrative part which introduces both in turn. The uniqueness of the text is found in the prophetic subject and in the conspicuous number of novellas within the piscatorial genre.

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Author Biography

Anna Cerbo, University of Naples L'Orientale

Anna Cerbo is full professor of Italian Literature at University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She is a scholar of literature from the 14th and 16th centuries (particularly Dante, Boccaccio, Campanella, Bruno and Regio) and also works on Leopardi and Luzi’s poetry. She wrote many essays on the rewriting of the myth. Her publications include an extended and revised edition of Metamorfosi del mito classico da Boccaccio a Marino (2012) and the critical editions of Sirenide (2014), a spiritual poem by Paolo Regio, and Lucrezia (2017), a tragedy by the same author.