The Considerazioni al Tasso, together with the Postille all’Ariosto, are a further confirmation of refined literary education of Galileo. The scientist’s library includes, among various ancient and modern classics, even plays, particularly of Ruzzante, whose comedy – for the tendency to raillery and wit that characterize it – seems to have inspired the Galileian’s ability to define human masks, as well as the taste for the lapidary sentence. Placed in the wake of a long dispute against the scholastic tradition, the Considerazioni al Tasso allow Galileo to use, in the literary-critical area, the lexicon and rhetoric adverse to Aristotelianism, which find widespread deployment in his best known works, particularly in the Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo. In this critical study, we analyze the expressive solutions that are present in the pages dedicated to Liberata, mainly issuing from the language of comedy and therefore based on the comic consistency of the signifier. The reference is also tracked, by the scientist, for items such as, the decor, the verisimilitude, the point of view or estrangement, which reveal its sensitivity to the scenic dimension of the literary text.
Atmosfere scenico-teatrali nella prosa critica di Galileo , pp. 87-98 (ISSN: 0391-3368).
DELL'AQUILA, Giulia
2013-01-01
Abstract
The Considerazioni al Tasso, together with the Postille all’Ariosto, are a further confirmation of refined literary education of Galileo. The scientist’s library includes, among various ancient and modern classics, even plays, particularly of Ruzzante, whose comedy – for the tendency to raillery and wit that characterize it – seems to have inspired the Galileian’s ability to define human masks, as well as the taste for the lapidary sentence. Placed in the wake of a long dispute against the scholastic tradition, the Considerazioni al Tasso allow Galileo to use, in the literary-critical area, the lexicon and rhetoric adverse to Aristotelianism, which find widespread deployment in his best known works, particularly in the Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo. In this critical study, we analyze the expressive solutions that are present in the pages dedicated to Liberata, mainly issuing from the language of comedy and therefore based on the comic consistency of the signifier. The reference is also tracked, by the scientist, for items such as, the decor, the verisimilitude, the point of view or estrangement, which reveal its sensitivity to the scenic dimension of the literary text.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
