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Isabella Becherucci

Dediche manzoniane

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Chiara Schiavon

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This essay considers the dedications in the books of letters of single authors published in the middle of sixteenth century. Among the authors of these books there are important literary men like Pietro Aretino, Pietro Bembo, Claudio Tolomei and Annibal Caro, besides many other minor personalities yet important for the printing's and culture's world. The first part of this work, besides some preliminary remarks on formal matters (type of dedication, position, heading), concentrates on the dedicatee's figure, both from a textual point of view, analyzing the dedicatee's portraits made by the authors, and from a contextual point of view, outlining the relationships connecting the dedicatee to the author and the book, the motivations of the dedication and its consequences.

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Giulia Ponsiglione

Funzioni e finzioni nelle dediche di Luigi Guicciardini a Cosimo I de' Medici

Analyses and compares the two dedications written by Luigi Guicciardini to Cosimo I de' Medici in Comparazione del giuoco delli scacchi alla Arte militare and in Historia del Sacco di Roma. The two guicciardinian works seem at first sight quite different each other, both in subject and in structure; but indeed they reveal to the bottom a same pedagogic and flattering intention. That intention especially appears just in the two dedications to the Duke, where the Author can more freely elaborate his strategies of political and cultural self-legitimation.

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Laura Nocito

Ai margini della letteratura femminile: per un primo approccio alle dediche di poetesse nel Cinquecento

This article presents research on texts of dedication from a selection of 16th century female poets. It highlights the female presence in literature typical of the period as well as specific elements of their production in this genre. The research, even though conducted on a limited scale, shows how the female writers were able to write such dedications respecting habitual practice, and at the same time, providing evidence against the widespread misogyny that was apparent in the second half of the 16th century.

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