Dialogue on Landscape. Gaspara Stampa and Andrea Zanzotto
Abstract
By presenting the mannerist option of the Ipersonetto, Andrea Zanzotto pays an explicit homage to Gaspara Stampa. The overused expressive code of the sonnet reactivates its energy by taking root in a specific place-territory of the enunciation: the wooded and hilly landscape of Montello. But the ancient poetess does not appear among the verses of the modern poet. It is necessary to seek her by imagining a dialogue that relativizes the chronological gap, thanks to the poetic affection released by contact with the same landscape, loved and lover. In both cases, in dissimilar ways, the environmental context frees itself from the descriptive and background typicality of the topos, to manifest itself with a communicative and desiring vivacity.
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