Percorsi metamorfici della natura nel Cinquecento

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_15214
dc.title	Percorsi metamorfici della natura nel Cinquecento. L’acqua e le fontane nell’ecfrasi di Annibal Caro e Claudio Tolomei
dc.contributor.author	Ferretti Emanuela
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/venezia-arti/2023/1/percorsi-metamorfici-della-natura-nel-cinquecento/
dc.description.abstract	Sixteenth-century literary correspondences have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years, with including significant digitization projects. The two documents that are analysed in this essay (Caro’s letter to Guidiccioni and Tolomei’s letter to Grimaldi), have been repeatedly analysed by historiography as a privileged source for a new sensibility for fountains and water features that was emerging in the first decades of the sixteenth century. The present study highlights the ecphrastic abilities displayed by the two authors in portraying the metamorphic aspects of water, from the point of view of a peculiar valorization of the technical aspects underlying water plays and fountains.
dc.relation.ispartof	Venezia Arti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 32 \| December 2023
dc.issued	2023-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2023-10-20
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-09-06
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-2720
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2023/01/005
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Annibal Caro
dc.subject	Claudio Tolomei
dc.subject	Ecfrasis
dc.subject	Fountains
dc.subject	Renaissance hydraulic engineering
dc.subject	Waterplays

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L’acqua e le fontane nell’ecfrasi di Annibal Caro e Claudio Tolomei

Emanuela Ferretti Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italia

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abstract

Sixteenth-century literary correspondences have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years, with including significant digitization projects. The two documents that are analysed in this essay (Caro’s letter to Guidiccioni and Tolomei’s letter to Grimaldi), have been repeatedly analysed by historiography as a privileged source for a new sensibility for fountains and water features that was emerging in the first decades of the sixteenth century. The present study highlights the ecphrastic abilities displayed by the two authors in portraying the metamorphic aspects of water, from the point of view of a peculiar valorization of the technical aspects underlying water plays and fountains.

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Dec. 20, 2023

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Oct. 20, 2023

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Sept. 6, 2023

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Keywords: Fountains • Claudio Tolomei • Waterplays • Annibal Caro • Renaissance hydraulic engineering • Ecfrasis

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