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78:, who he frequently cites in his work. Regardless of his commemoration by Basile in 1627, it is generally believed, due to several handwritten manuscripts, that Cortese lived at least until 1640 and it is consequently believed that he attended and perhaps participated in his own funeral. Cortese is very important for Baroque and dialectical literature, in that, with Basile, he laid the foundations for the artistic and literary dignity of the 262: 136:
reside and where the poet can set forth the sins of poetry, carried out in a degraded society, where the order of the day is the crime of plagiarism. The whole resolves itself with a fairytale ending and the bitter disillusionment of the poet who see all of his ambitions coming to naught.
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This work, written in dialect, serves as a diagnostic exploration of the state of literature and the individuals involved in it, with a variety of autobiographical allusions, filled with bitterness and pessimism.
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where the main element is the investigation of the world through which Cortese makes into a world which is not his own and which he describes with irony and tragedy.
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poem in five cantos, where the lyric meter and the heroic themes are lowered to the level of the protagonists: a group of
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Born to a well-to-do family, nothing is known of Cortese's early life, though it is thought that he was a schoolmate of
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Maurino, Ferdinando D. (1958). "Cervantes, Cortese, Caporali, and Their Journeys to Parnassus".
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court as he was sent in 1599 to Spain as a member of a Medici delegation for the marriage of
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in which Cortese had also produced a number of largely laudatory works.
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The reader is literally catapulted into the day-to-day life of the
133: 55: 27: 35: 156:"Corrigenda per la biografia di Giulio Cesare Cortese" 50:. Receiving a degree in law, he tried life as a 30:– 22 December 1622 in Naples) was an Italian 8: 240:The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature 146: 7: 188:Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 124:The entire narrative takes place in 194:Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana 14: 260: 154:Palmisciano, Vincenzo (2019). 1: 320: 190:, Volume 29: Cordier–Corvo 214:Modern Language Quarterly 181:Nigro, Salvatore (1983). 236:"Cortese, Giulio Cesare" 227:10.1215/00267929-19-1-43 183:"CORTESE, Giulio Cesare" 244:Oxford University Press 117:The Voyage in Parnassus 16:Italian author and poet 72:Margherita of Austria 20:Giulio Cesare Cortese 234:Zancani, D. (2002). 192:(in Italian). Rome: 284:Neapolitan language 80:Neapolitan language 68:Philip III of Spain 48:Giambattista Basile 294:Italian male poets 82:as opposed to the 160:Studi secenteschi 311: 270: 268:biography portal 265: 264: 263: 254: 252: 250: 230: 207: 203:978-8-81200032-6 168: 167: 151: 319: 318: 314: 313: 312: 310: 309: 308: 274: 273: 266: 261: 259: 248: 246: 233: 210: 204: 180: 177: 172: 171: 153: 152: 148: 143: 123: 119: 108: 97: 92: 44: 17: 12: 11: 5: 317: 315: 307: 306: 301: 296: 291: 286: 276: 275: 272: 271: 256: 255: 231: 208: 202: 176: 175:External links 173: 170: 169: 145: 144: 142: 139: 118: 115: 96: 95:The Vaiasseide 93: 91: 88: 84:Tuscan dialect 76:Luigi Caponaro 43: 40: 15: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 316: 305: 302: 300: 297: 295: 292: 290: 289:Italian poets 287: 285: 282: 281: 279: 269: 258: 245: 241: 237: 232: 228: 224: 220: 216: 215: 209: 205: 199: 195: 191: 189: 184: 179: 178: 174: 165: 161: 157: 150: 147: 140: 138: 135: 131: 127: 116: 114: 112: 106: 102: 94: 89: 87: 85: 81: 77: 73: 69: 65: 61: 57: 53: 49: 41: 39: 37: 33: 29: 25: 21: 247:. Retrieved 239: 221:(1): 43–46. 218: 212: 186: 163: 159: 149: 120: 110: 104: 98: 45: 19: 18: 304:1640 deaths 299:1570 births 101:mock-heroic 278:Categories 166:: 189–199. 141:References 126:Parnassus 22:(1570 in 132:and his 60:Florence 52:courtier 111:vaiasse 105:vaiasse 249:7 June 200:  130:Apollo 128:where 64:Medici 32:author 24:Naples 134:Muses 90:Works 70:with 56:Spain 28:Italy 251:2023 198:ISBN 58:and 42:Life 36:poet 34:and 223:doi 54:in 280:: 242:. 238:. 219:19 217:. 196:. 185:. 164:LX 162:. 158:. 99:A 38:. 26:, 253:. 229:. 225:: 206:.

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Naples
Italy
author
poet
Giambattista Basile
courtier
Spain
Florence
Medici
Philip III of Spain
Margherita of Austria
Luigi Caponaro
Neapolitan language
Tuscan dialect
mock-heroic
Parnassus
Apollo
Muses
"Corrigenda per la biografia di Giulio Cesare Cortese"
"CORTESE, Giulio Cesare"
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
ISBN
978-8-81200032-6
Modern Language Quarterly
doi
10.1215/00267929-19-1-43
"Cortese, Giulio Cesare"
Oxford University Press
biography portal

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