Journal |
Quaderni Veneti
Journal issue | 5 | 2 | 2016
Research Article | Una ‘moderna mitologia’ floreale
Una ‘moderna mitologia’ floreale
L’Epitalamio botanico di Giuseppe Barbieri
Abstract
A sacred orator and poet, Melchiorre Cesarotti’s scholar and famous, among his contemporaries, as the epic poet of the Euganean Hills, the abbot Giuseppe Barbieri (1774-1852), born in Bassano del Grappa, reveals his fondness for themes linked to the nature also in a juvenile poem, composed in loose hendecasyllables and dedicated to the loves and the nuptials of the plants. In the Botanical Epithalamium, of which a comment is now offered, thanks to the fusion between the memory of the ancient and scientific interests, Barbieri gives a diverse life to multiple plant species and therefore creates a sort of new mythology, of which trees and shrubs, bushes and meadows dotted with corollas remain the protagonists.
Submitted: Jan. 23, 2018 | Accepted: Feb. 19, 2018 | Published Dec. 31, 2016 | Language: it
Keywords Mythology • Flowers • Plants • Epithalamia • Poetry
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/1724-188X/QV-5-2-4
