The sequestering of Italian Baroque: Botelho and Padre Spada hidden translation

Abstract

Música do Parnasso is a lyrical collection published in 1705 by Manuel Botelho de Oliveira. Speaking of modern Italy, Botelho characterized it – in his dedicatory – as a renewed Greece. The Italian poet Marino emerges within Botelho preferences: Marino is quoted several times directly and indirectly by the Brazilian literate. However, this knowledge was mediated by a little-known manual of an Italian ecclesiastic, Padre Giambattista Spada.

Keywords

• materialismo
• intertextualidade
• barroco