Sulle canzoni di Torquato Tasso nella «Parte seconda delle Rime» (1593)

The essay studies the forms of Tasso’s canzone belonging to the encomiastic genre, focusing on the large corpus collected in the Seconda parte delle Rime published by the author in 1593. After briefly recalling the importance of this selection within Tasso’s immense lyric production, and the philological problems still connected to it, it proposes a reading in series of its canzoni and an analysis of some recurring and characteristic figures. The careful strategies of variation that preside over the choice and arrangement of the texts are thus brought to light: the collection appears almost as a repertoire of models for the various forms of encomium adaptable to the noble metre of Petrarch’s canzone.