Il ritratto dell’ozioso. Le citazioni morali di Francesco Fulvio Frugoni

Abstract

Francesco Fulvio Frugoni, the leading figure of the conceptist prose, has proved to have an encyclopedic knowledge of aphorisms and exempla coming from heterogeneous sources. This paper offers a parallel between late-Renaissance mnemonic techniques and Frugoni’s recurring quotations which have been organized into well-defined moral themes. The aim of this paper is to deduce constant stylistic features which will in turn offer a new perspective on the erudite arabesques of Frugoni’s writing. The mentioned parallel starts from a meticulous analysis of the structure and quotations included in a chapter of his Ritratti critici (1669).

Keywords

• italian literature
• XVIIth century