Una celebrazione di Napoli e dei suoi sovrani nella compagine di un canzoniere di Giovanni Pontano: l'ode VI della Lyra

The essay focuses on a poem of Pontano's Lyra. It presents the complex editorial genesis of Lyra and relations wint other works of Pontano; then shifts the focus about Lyra VI and analyzes it under the rhetorical aspect of Laus urbis, highlighting the originality compared to the classic precepts, but also defining its role in building the Myth of Naples. The dating of poem in the age following the recapture of Otranto by Aragonese army also allows to grasp the ideological aspects related to the celebration of Alfonso duke of Calabria, the leader who led the campaign against Turks. The comparison with Literature developed near the historical event (especially wint Marco Probo da Sulmona's Triumphus Hydruntinus, Giovanni Albino Lucano's De bello Hydruntino, and Pontano's De fortitudine) allows to outline the propaganda in favor of the Prince that are renewed in some verses of Lyra VI (especially vv. 18-19).