Gli ittionimi nella Verra antiga e nel Naspo bizaro di Alessandro Caravia
abstract
This paper analyses fish names in Alessandro Caravia’s two poems in Venetian dialect, Verra antiga (1550) and Naspo bizaro (1565), which belong to the Venetian piscatory genre, which is best known to scholars for famous works such as Lettere (1547-1556) and Bizzarre, faconde et ingegnose rime pescatorie (1553) by Andrea Calmo.
Keywords: Venetian dialect • Piscatorial genre • Renaissance literature • Alessandro Caravia • Fish names