La tradizione epigrammatica negli Hendecasyllabi di Giovanni Pontano, con particolare attenzione per Marziale e Catullo

The Pontano's "Hendecasyllaborum libri seu Baiae" transposes poetically a glimpse of wordly life, the holiday in Baia, in a dimension strongly marked in erotic sense, but also buy a process of transfiguration of historical places in landscapes of Arcadian escapism. Pontano tooks the idea of representing the frame of Baia himself and his circle of friends, herniolosi, ranciduli, ventriculosi, chasing beautiful ladies of the Neapolitan aristocracy, caught in poses of sensual eroticism, by literary tradition already consolidated, in which a primary role have Martial and Propertius.