Una citazione settecentesca del “Malmantile racquistato”: il "Torquato Tasso" di Carlo Goldoni

• Main Author: Lucia Di Santo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Prof. Rinaldo Rinaldi 2015-12-01
• Series: Parole Rubate : Rivista Internazionale di Studi sulla Citazione
• Subjects: literature; Italy; 17th-18th centuries
• Online Access: http://www.parolerubate.unipr.it/fascicolo12_pdf/F12_7_disanto_lippi.pdf

This article aims to investigate the reasons for the quotations from Lorenzo Lippi’s Malmantile racquistato in Carlo Goldoni’s comedy Torquato Tasso. The presence of Malmantile could be explained in light of the crisis the Venetian author went through in that period. On the one hand, Goldoni wanted to defend himself from his detractors’ linguistic accusations by exaggerating Lippi’s model, which symbolised an extravagant (and, by then, irretrievable) Florentine purism. On the other hand, Goldoni’s pragmatic re-use of the source confirms the eighteenth-century metamorphosis of Lippi’s poem into the emblem of an anachronistic Florentinism on the part of literary commentators and the Crusca Vocabulary.