Parodia di autori e codici nell’“Hecatelegium” di Pacifico Massimi

Abstract

This article aims to throw light on the techniques adopted by the Neo-Latin poet Pacifico Massimi in his "Hecatelegium" (1489) in order to deform his literary materials. These strategies include the parody of themes from Horace and Seneca; the parodic distortion of typical topoi of the language of love; the caricatural doubling of the authorial figure, depicted from opposed and deliberately contradictory angles.

Keywords

• humanism
• quotation
• latin