Anatomy of the monster: Francisco José Freire's reproach to the tragicomic poem
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https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i47.33611Keywords:
Horace, Francisco José Freire, Giovanni Battista Guarini, tragicomedy, monstrum.Abstract
Francisco José Freire (1719-1773), known as Cândido Lusitano, in the treatise Arte poetica, ou Regras da Verdadeira Poesia em geral, e de todas as suas especies principaes, tratadas com juizo critico (ed. 1748; 2nd ed. 1759), condemns tragicomedy as a hybrid and vicious genre, neither tragic nor comic, without proportion or unity, and Il Pastor Fido, a pastoral tragicomedy composed by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538-1612), whose first edition was published in 1590, is rejected as a bad work of art. The blame of tragicomedy and of the famous Italian poem is based on the metaphor of the monstrum, presented in the initial steps (vv. 14-31) of the Epistula ad Pisones, the Horace’s Poetics (1st century B.C.). This epistle gives Francisco José Freire the criteria for judging poetry in the Portuguese eighteenth-century.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2018n47a1160
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