Il carme V di Catullo in Torquato Tasso

Abstract

The essay offers a review of the occurrences of Catullus’ fifth poem within Torquato Tasso’s works, and it aims at contextualizing all these allusions while also discussing the use of the intertextuality and its diachronic evolution. Tasso reprises Catullus’ reflection on nature as cyclical as opposed to human finitude in four circumstances, thus demonstrating the outstanding importance of this particular carmen for his own poetry.

Keywords

• torquato tasso
• catullus
• intertextuality
• lyric poetry