Possibili modelli letterari della «farsetta» alfieriana I poeti: «fondo» di Lesage e influenza goldoniana

• Autores: Enrico Ricceri
• Localización: Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, ISSN 0017-0496, Vol. 194, Nº. 648, 2017, págs. 552-568
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • This article analyses two literary models that may have served as inspiration to Alfieri for his first prose work, the ‘little farce’ I Poeti. The observations made by Ezio Raimondi serve as a springboard for the first part of the study, which examines the relationship between this minor work by Alfieri and Alain-René Lesage’s novels, Le diable boiteux and Gil Blas; however, there does not seem to emerge any close rooting between Lesage and the farce. A much greater bond lies between I Poeti and Carlo Goldoni’s Il teatro comico; in fact, both texts express the poetics of the respective authors in theatrical form, and the use that Alfieri makes of the characters in his ‘little farce’ shows how his familiarity with Goldoni’s work was by no means superficial, thereby revealing the extent to which Alfieri emulated the playwright so early on in his theatrical endeavours.