La festa, il banchetto e il canto in un inedito poema di Lorenzo Valla. La corte di Alfonso il Magnanimo a Gaeta nel Novencarmen

The paper focuses on Lorenzo Valla’s Work entitled Novencarmen and highlights its composite and dramatized structure. In fact, the poem presents itself as a Mischung of suggestions derived from the coeval habits of the convivial poetry and classical memories derived, for example, from the metric constructions of authors such as Venanzio Fortunato and Paolino da Nola, or from Plauto. In particular, the paper analyzes some aspects of Mauron character, which stands out for two elements of particular symbolic value: his song is accompanied by the lyre and its descent from a siren. The lyre is an element of undoubted value allusive to the figure of Orpheus, the latter character covered by the classical tradition and medieval with strong allegorical and sapiential traits. The second element is the genealogy itself of Mauron: the son of the Siren Limna in his song realizes, obviously, the talent inherited from the mother-Siren. The paper connects the philosophical contents of Novencarmen with the Valla’s treatise De vero falsoque bono.