Le «miserie umane»: percorsi di un tema mariniano

Taking as its starting point Giovan Francesco Loredan’s anecdote according to which Marino got himself noticed in a Venetian bookshop by reciting the “moral” sonnet on the Miserie umane, the essay reflects on the Venetian context and possible models of the sonnet, with some considerations on Marino’s imitation. Examining the autograph manuscript and the author’s textual variants, it then studies an episode of the sonnet’s 18th-century fortune, between Maggi, Maffei, and the «Bibliothèque italique».