Antonio Iurilli

Esopo fra cronaca e politica. Di una silloge barocca di favole

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Keywords

  • Of the boundless territory of the fortune of Aesop in modern literatures this study examines a meaningful part
  • that of the proverbial Baroque fable
  • specifically the Bestiarum schola by Pompeo Sarnelli (1649-1724). Sarnelli was an apostolic protonotary and bishop
  • an erudite antiquarian
  • grammarian and historian. What emerges is his restless identity as an abbot absorbed in the long term processes of the Renaissance in Southern Italy
  • intellectually prone to a reading voracity that drove him towards the ambiguous borders of late 17th century ecclesiastical culture and politics
  • bending the limits of orthodoxy. He was convinced he could illustrate
  • using the apparent naivety of the zoological allegory and the realistic irony of the short story
  • the lacerations of his time: in the fields of knowledge
  • power
  • and sinning humanity

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