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Quanti sonetti ha il Cansonero del conte di Popoli? A proposito dell'hapax metrico «Amor, che nei beli ochi de custei»

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    Rodríguez Mesa, Francisco José
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    Rodríguez Mesa, Francisco José

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    Journal article
    Language:
    Italian
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    Published:
    2022
    In:
    Revista de Cancioneros Impresos y Manuscritos ISSN 2254-7444 Nº. 11, 2022, pags. 212-234
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    The Count of Popoli's Cansonero, kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (ms. Ital. 1035), constitutes the primary example of «koine poetry», a Neapolitan poetic tradition from the 1460s, traditionally defined alluding to the popular themes and modes of a significant part of its compositions and which emerged in the Neapolitan Kingdom. Despite the importance of this work and the fact that the Cansonero has been edited several times (as both complete and partial editions), some fundamental questions about this anthology remain unanswered. Some of the main gaps in scholarship that need to be addressed concern the borders between the different compositions collected in the manuscript and their permeability to themes and meters coming from Petrarchan poetry, which flourished in the Aragonese court of Naples from the mid-15th century. Considering these two aspects, in this study I aim to analyse what the editions of the Cansonero have so far presented as the only metrical hapax of the sylloge: a particular case of double sonnet whose first line is «Amor, che nei beli ochi di custei» (f. 40r). This poem will be studied from a metrical, thematic and philological point of view in order to try to better classify and understand it.


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