Political Dimension of the Genealogy of Fire. For Gaspara Stampa

Abstract

Thanks to uncertainties about her biography, the poet Gaspara Stampa had the privilege of not being classified in obsolete categories. In this way the power of her semiotics of fire has remained intact, and in recent decades in Venice he has signed women’s events in the fields of poetry, theatre and journalism oriented towards a “genealogy of fire”. But it is impossible to talk about her without mentioning Luisa Bergalli, who re-edited her in the eighteenth century with a strong political conscience. The text urges us to look at the relationships between the Venetian female protagonists of the different eras and their possible aggregative dimension, following the example of the Preziose. As for Gaspara Stampa, in the form of research notes, the multiform and exotic Venetian esoteric context where Alchemy, Zoroastrianism, Paganism and Female Instances coexist in infusion. The images of the gods of the ancients by Vincenzo Cartari, her contemporary, contain imperfect notes of reference to the goddess Hestia, semantic nucleus that more than others seems approachable to the stampian “pure fire”.