La seconda edizione della «Bellezza della volgar poesia» e il dibattito sul canone lirico nei primi anni del Settecento

The essay studies the second edition of Giovan Mario Crescimbeni’s La bellezza della volgar poesia (1712), focusing on the new added ninth dialogue, which claimed the thematic variety of Arcadian poetry and scaled down the influence of the sixteenth-century Petrarchism upon it. These positions are related to the contemporary debate on the lyric poetry canon, shading new light on Crescimbeni’s reaction to the recent publications of Anton Maria Salvini, Lodovico Antonio Muratori and Pier Jacopo Martello.