Territorio, Voluptas e Pulchritudo nella letteratura umanistica in latino alla corte aragonese di Napoli: le origini di un mito

The paper focuses on Naples’ iconography from the reign of Alfonso the Magnanimous to the Spanish Vice-Kingdom. It reconstructs the development of literary representations, which were connoted in the sense of beauty, of the kind, of the delightful and were fixed on the characteristic binomial ‘classicism-mythology’. The paper also highlights the promoters of this transfiguration: Giovanni Pontano, Iacopo Sannazaro and the Pontano’s Academy and the intellectuals of later generations active in the context of the Spanish Vice-Kingdom.