Resumen de L’anacronismo metrico di Bernardino Baldi: le canzoni «secondo l’uso de’ Siciliani antichi»
The poems included in the Rime secondo l’uso dei Siciliani antichi by Bernardino Baldi, published in the volume Lauro (Pavia 1600), linguistically and metrically imitate the forms and language of thirteenth-century Italian lyric poetry. By setting the poems within the sixteenth-century context of literary rediscoveries of Italian poetical tradition, this article will focus on the analysis of those poems by Baldi that are canzoni (two of which are re-writings of texts by Giacomo da Lentini and Guittone d’Arezzo). This study will take into consideration the phenomenon of the assimilation of archaisms and, conversely, that of the persistence of 16thcentury literary forms in Baldi’s poems, in order to cast a new light on Baldi’s anti-classical poetic experiment.
