
handle: 2318/11949
Per buona parte del XIX secolo fu diffuso, non solo in Italia, il canone dei «quattro poeti». In Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto e Tasso si vide cioè il culmine della poesia italiana. Dei loro capolavori Commedia, Canzoniere, Orlando Furioso, Gerusalemme Liberata si curarono anche edizioni che li raccoglievano in un unico volume; uno di tali curatori fu il tedesco Adolf Wagner, zio del grande compositore Richard. Non è chiaro quando, con esattezza, e per opera di chi, quel canone si fosse formato; certo fra i primi suoi sostenitori e diffusori vi fu Vittorio Alfieri. Ma il tragico italiano aveva anche una speranza: di potersi insediare come quinto fra i «quattro poeti». L’articolo accenna inoltre ad alcuni riflessi figurativi del canone, evidenti nelle facciate ottocentesche di alcuni teatri; mentre la facciata di un palazzo nobiliare lombardo sembra mettere in atto la speranza di Alfieri: la sua immagine si affianca infatti a quelle di Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto e Tasso.
During the most part of the XIXth. century the «four poets» canon was expanded, not only in Italy. Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto and Tasso were considered the highest point of italian poetry. In many editions of their masterpieces, Divina Commedia, Canzoniere, Orlando Furioso and Gerusalemme Liberata, were published together. One of those editions was prepared by the German Adolf Wagner, uncle of great compositor Richard. It is not clear when (and by whom) the canon has been established. Without any doubt one of its firts advocates and propagators was Vittorio Alfieri whose aspiration was to be included as the «number five» of «the four poets”. This article mentions all these questions and refers even to figurative reflections of the canon in some nineteenth century theatre’s front. In the front of a Lombardy noble palazzo the Alfieri’s wish seems to come true, because his image appears near those of Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto and Tasso.
Poesia italiana, French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature, Alfieri, «The four poets», P1-1091, canon, Canon, 800, PQ1-3999, «Quattro poeti», Filología italiana, Philology. Linguistics, Italian Poetry
Poesia italiana, French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature, Alfieri, «The four poets», P1-1091, canon, Canon, 800, PQ1-3999, «Quattro poeti», Filología italiana, Philology. Linguistics, Italian Poetry
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