Echoes of wartime in late sixteenth-century Italian comedy
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Gurney, Tessa C. [1]
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[1] High Point University
High Point University
Township of High Point, Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, ISSN-e 1469-9524, ISSN 1470-1847, Vol. 24, Nº. 1, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Seeing the Turk after Lepanto. Visions of the Ottomans and Islam in Spain and Italy), págs. 155-174
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Resumen
The military events of 1570–71 inspired a vast outpouring of encomiastic literature that saturated nearly every genre of western literature. This paper explores the effects that the conflict in the Mediterranean had on Italian comedic production. Through the examination of Luigi Groto’s Emilia and Giambattista Della Porta’s La turca and La sorella, this article seeks to establish these military events as a defining moment in Italian comedy, a point after which comedic production shifted from dependence on formulaic plots firmly rooted in the classical tradition to a stronger emphasis on current events. In Emilia, Groto rewrites the invasion of Cyprus, remembering the heroic virtue of Venetian patriots instead of the horrific loss and imagines a case in which the tragedy brought one family together. Della Porta’s comedies reflect a world plagued by both constant conflict and intense fear.
