| RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI | |
| Anno XIV , n° 2, Dicembre 1996 ( Contributi ) | pag. 43-53 |
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| SLEEP AS A BAROQUE METAPHOR IN MARINO'S ADONE | |
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| PINA PALMA | |
| Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York |
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The Baroque esthetics is shaped by the consciousness of a crisis resulting from the shattering of the Renaissance anthropocentric universe1. This esthetics can be broadly summarized as an esthetics of "delirious vision" in that its artistic manifestations reach a defining focus in the awareness and the making of optical illusions, multi-faceted appearances, and shifting perspectives. This mode of representation is geometrically represented with an ellipse2, a figure which, unlike the Renaissance circular emblem, does not seek to elegantly encompass the object as well as the self; rather, it represents the never-ending aspiration toward the attainment of the ultimate perfect state3. [...] |
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