Manilius Cabacius Rhallus (Mystras 1447 - Rome 1523) was still very young, when he knew the fate of exile shortly after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Moving to Italy, he settled in Rome, became appreciated in the circle of the intellectuals who worked there and was at the service of four Cardinals. He became known among the Italian humanists as a fine poet with a fortunate collection of poems, which was also edited in print shortly before his death (Manilii Cabacii Rhalli Iuveniles ingenii lusus, Naples 1520). Among the various motives that we find in his poetry it’s very important the erotic one, which takes on from time to time the tones of the lyric or of the elegy, and in which the images and the allusions are drawn from a rare and sophisticated wealth of classical knowledge and culture. This essays aims to focus attention on the poetic expression of the suffering and the psychopathology of the feeling of love, as they appear in some poems of the epigrammatic section of the collection, highlighting the cultured reuse of the classical sources.

Epigrammi erotici nella raccolta poetica di Manilio Cabacio Rallo / Germano, Giuseppe. - tomo I:(2018), pp. 517-533.

Epigrammi erotici nella raccolta poetica di Manilio Cabacio Rallo

Germano Giuseppe
2018

Abstract

Manilius Cabacius Rhallus (Mystras 1447 - Rome 1523) was still very young, when he knew the fate of exile shortly after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Moving to Italy, he settled in Rome, became appreciated in the circle of the intellectuals who worked there and was at the service of four Cardinals. He became known among the Italian humanists as a fine poet with a fortunate collection of poems, which was also edited in print shortly before his death (Manilii Cabacii Rhalli Iuveniles ingenii lusus, Naples 1520). Among the various motives that we find in his poetry it’s very important the erotic one, which takes on from time to time the tones of the lyric or of the elegy, and in which the images and the allusions are drawn from a rare and sophisticated wealth of classical knowledge and culture. This essays aims to focus attention on the poetic expression of the suffering and the psychopathology of the feeling of love, as they appear in some poems of the epigrammatic section of the collection, highlighting the cultured reuse of the classical sources.
2018
978-88-6705-812-9
Epigrammi erotici nella raccolta poetica di Manilio Cabacio Rallo / Germano, Giuseppe. - tomo I:(2018), pp. 517-533.
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