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"Care Gemelle d'un Parto Nate": Marino's Picta Poesis

1985; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 100; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2905669

1080-6598

Gavriel Moses,

Visual Culture and Art Theory

Giambattista Marino's interest for the visual arts and his involvement in them, both theoretical and practical, are well known. A patron of Poussin and a passionate art collector, he is best known as the author of l'Adone, that last of Renaissance attempts to write in the grand epic mold, notable for its highly pictorial qualities. The particular relations between literary work and the arts is important, however, throughout the whole range of Marino's writings; and pictorial sources are among the varieties of materials that he drew upon in his extreme and idiosyncratic manner of assembling the elusive inlay-work of his poetry.' Regarded by him as a challenge to the most educated of explicators, the refined mosaic of sources, allusions and deformations typical of his writing is concerned not only with the erudite sampling of wide areas of subject matter, but also with the problematic activity of fitting smoothly together such a rag bag of heterogeneous materials. When it came