Giulio Cesare Cortese
Giulio Cesare Cortese (1570 in Naples, Italy – 22 December 1622 in Naples[1]) was an Italian author and poet.
Life
Born to a well-to-do family, nothing is known of Cortese's early life, though it is thought that he was a schoolmate of
Works
The Vaiasseide
A mock-heroic poem in five cantos, where the lyric meter and the heroic themes are lowered to the level of the protagonists: a group of vaiasse, common Neapolitan women who express themselves in dialect. Its writing is comic and transgressive, where much importance is given to the participation of the plebeian choir in the mechanics of the action.
The reader is literally catapulted into the day-to-day life of the vaiasse where the main element is the investigation of the world through which Cortese makes into a world which is not his own and which he describes with irony and tragedy.
The Voyage in Parnassus
This work, written in dialect, serves as a diagnostic exploration of the state of literature and the individuals involved in it, with a variety of autobiographical allusions, filled with bitterness and pessimism.
The entire narrative takes place in
References
- ^ Palmisciano, Vincenzo (2019). "Corrigenda per la biografia di Giulio Cesare Cortese". Studi secenteschi. LX: 189–199.
External links
- Nigro, Salvatore (1983). "CORTESE, Giulio Cesare". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Maurino, Ferdinando D. (1958). "Cervantes, Cortese, Caporali, and Their Journeys to Parnassus". .
- Zancani, D. (2002). "Cortese, Giulio Cesare". The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 7 June 2023.