Elegia e parodia elegiaca: dall’Hermaphroditus del Panormita agli Epigrammata di Porcelio de’ Pandoni

The controversy and scandal that accompanied the publication of Panormita’s Hermaphroditus did not prevent it from being used as a model, even by those who had condemned it and programmatically rejected its obscenity. Porcelio de’ Pandoni himself, who was the protagonist of a long controversy with the Panormita, in his Epigrammata welcomes the lesson of the Panormita: he hybridizes his epigrammatic vein (modulated mainly on eulogy and celebratory tones), on the one hand with caustic, foul-mouthed, scommatics and invectives, on the other with elegiac insertions on love topics.