Garcilaso and the myth of Narcissus, between Ovid and Marsilio

Authors

  • Antonio Gargano University of Naples Federico II

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7493

Keywords:

Narcissus, Garcilaso de la Vega, Ovid, Plotinus, Ficinus

Abstract

This work proposes a close-reading of the episode of Albano’s madness (Garcilaso de la Vega, Égloga II, vv. 885-1034) in the light of the myth of Narcissus, according to the literary tradition and the philosophical thought, from Ovid to Marsilio Ficino, including the Plotinian interpretation of the myth.

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Author Biography

Antonio Gargano, University of Naples Federico II

Antonio Gargano is Full Professor of Spanish Literature at the Federico II University of Naples. He is Académico Correspondiente Extranjero of the Real Academia Española of Madrid. He has been visiting professor at the University of Salamanca and University Sorbonne-Paris III (2008). He co-ordinated national research projects such as “The Lyrical Tradition in the Fourth and Fifteenth Iberian Peninsula”, “Philology of Spanish narrative texts between the Five and Seventeenth Century” and on “Spanish satirical poetry (1629-1648)”. His wide range of research interests includes medieval epic, poetry between Italy and Spain in the 15th and 17th centuries but also investigations on twentieth-century literature and narrative. Recently, he edited the Lazarillo de Tormes (Venice, 2017) and published a volume of studies on La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas (Madrid-Frankfurt, 2020).

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Published

2020-12-21

How to Cite

Gargano, A. (2020). Garcilaso and the myth of Narcissus, between Ovid and Marsilio. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (4), 359–376. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7493

Issue

No. 4 (2020): The representation of the Cold war in literature and the arts (1947-1989)

Section

Monographic section II

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