The second line of Foscolo’s sonnet A Zacinto (1802/1803) has given rise to many redundant interpretations. The noun corpo and the verb giacque, while referring to the speaker as a child, seem to anticipate the illacrimata sepoltura of the last line, thus taking on the meaning of ‘dead body’ and ‘to lay buried’. A discussion of the meaning of the verb leads to a different interpre-tation, but the real surprise is the Gallicism, exclusive to the Middle Ages, il mio corpo, used as a personal pronoun. Foscolo had shown some interest in early Romance poetry and, as a bud-ding philologist working on the edition and translation of Catullus’ Coma Berenices (1803), he must have gained first-hand knowledge in the libraries he visited of troubadour songs long be-fore the publication of Raynouard’s monumental anthology (1816-1821). He must therefore have used the periphrastic locution in his sonnet as a rare Occitanism.
"Ove il mio corpo fanciulletto giacque" / DI GIROLAMO, Costanzo. - In: LINGUA E STILE. - ISSN 0024-385X. - 49:2(2014), pp. 219-235.
"Ove il mio corpo fanciulletto giacque"
DI GIROLAMO, COSTANZO
2014
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The second line of Foscolo’s sonnet A Zacinto (1802/1803) has given rise to many redundant interpretations. The noun corpo and the verb giacque, while referring to the speaker as a child, seem to anticipate the illacrimata sepoltura of the last line, thus taking on the meaning of ‘dead body’ and ‘to lay buried’. A discussion of the meaning of the verb leads to a different interpre-tation, but the real surprise is the Gallicism, exclusive to the Middle Ages, il mio corpo, used as a personal pronoun. Foscolo had shown some interest in early Romance poetry and, as a bud-ding philologist working on the edition and translation of Catullus’ Coma Berenices (1803), he must have gained first-hand knowledge in the libraries he visited of troubadour songs long be-fore the publication of Raynouard’s monumental anthology (1816-1821). He must therefore have used the periphrastic locution in his sonnet as a rare Occitanism.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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