Impious Heretics or Simple Birds? Alexander Farnese and Dutch Rebels in Post-Tassian Italian Poems
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Abstract
This article examines the poetical construction of a hero and his enemies in two early seventeenth-century Italian poems about the siege of Antwerp (1584–85), <i>Anversa Liberata</i> and <i>Anversa Conquistata</i> (1609). It explores the adaptations of Tasso’s <i>Gerusalemme Liberata</i> and <i>Conquistata</i> that made these models suitable to the new subject of the poems. From this perspective, we argue that the authors were more than servile epigones of Tasso, as the adaptations of Tasso’s <i>Gerusalemme</i> in both poems created a compromise between the literary tradition and the historical context. The Dutch rebels, being reminiscences of Argillano’s revolt, are characterised both as an errant enemy and a convertible community. Their double status enhances the complementary poetic representation of Alessandro Farnese, the army general fighting them as a clement “pious” hero. These representations and adaptations made it possible for the poems to finish with the reconversion of the Calvinist rebels and therefore both poems can be defined as “epic poems of reconciliation.”
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
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