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Ars poetica

I classici greci e latini nell'opera di Giorgio Bassani
  • Claudio Cazzola,

Despite the many studies on the author and the wealth of data on his academic education, relatively little was known of the high school years of Giorgio Bassani and the decisive encounters during those years. This book, rich in data and discoveries, traces precisely that dark area, identifies in Francesco Viviani the first of the Masters who, well beyond the period spent in the classrooms, would have exerted a profound influence on the future writer. The Greek and Latin texts read in those distant times are among those indicated by Professor Guzzo in Dietro la porta (Behind the Door), confirming the profoundly educational role that classical culture had had for the genesis of the ethical commitment and the search for truth which is the basis of all the Bassanian writing. Catullo, Alceo and especially Orazio will become for Bassani, according to Claudio Cazzola's analysis, examples to be emulated with refined allusive art, suggesting a compositional method that sees in a tireless limae labor the secret and authentic justification for the existence not only of Ferrara novel but also of its author.

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Claudio Cazzola

University of Ferrara, Italy

Claudio Cazzola taught Greek and Latin language and literature in the prestigious classical high school “L. Ariosto” of Ferrara from 1975 to 2011, and is a contract professor of Latin at the Department of Humanities of the Ferrara University. In 1995 he inaugurated the series of “Quaderni del Liceo Ariosto”, where the issue dedicated to Francesco Viviani (destined to become Professor Guzzo in fiction) was published in 1999. He dedicated some essays to Bassani, in miscellaneous books. A recent essay on theIliad and the Odyssey was published in L’enigma di Omero (Homer's riddle) (Ferrara, Este Edition, 2013).
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Book Title

Ars poetica

Book Subtitle

I classici greci e latini nell'opera di Giorgio Bassani

Authors

Claudio Cazzola

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Number of Pages

148

Publication Year

2018

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© 2018 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/978-88-6453-739-9

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978-88-6453-738-2

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978-88-6453-739-9

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978-88-6453-740-5

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978-88-9273-171-4

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Moderna/Comparata

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2704-5641

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2704-565X

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