Annibal Caro

Books Abroad ◽  
1937 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 362
Author(s):  
Elio Gianturco ◽  
Francesco Sarri
Keyword(s):  
Annibal Caro

scholarly journals Érasme, l’Arétin et Boccace dans l’invention du discours comique-burlesque d’Annibal Caro

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-90
Author(s):  
Ambra Moroncini
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Church Reform ◽  
Religious Dissent ◽  
Annibal Caro ◽  
Nous Verrons ◽  
Article Analyse

This article considers Annibal Caro’s religious sentiments during the years of his most intense comic and paradoxical production: the pre-Tridentine period from 1536 to 1543, a time of tense expectation in Rome for significant Church reform. Although Caro’s religious beliefs never raised suspicions of heterodoxy, we shall see that both his paradoxical prose in Berni’s style, and his only comedy (which he conceived at the request of the Duke Pier Luigi Farnese but was never authorised by Caro to be represented or published in his lifetime), show that Erasmian influences and suggestions from Boccaccio and Aretino allowed him to safely engage in a discourse of religious dissent. Cet article analyse la position religieuse du lettré Annibal Caro durant les années de sa plus intense activité comique-burlesque : la période pré-tridentine de 1536 à 1543, où il composa des proses paradoxales à la manière de Berni, et son unique comédie, conçue à la demande du duc Pier Luigi Farnèse. Caro n’autorisa pas, de son vivant, la représentation de celle-ci, et la comédie ne fut publiée que de manière posthume. Nous verrons que, bien que les sentiments religieux de Caro n’aient jamais suscité de soupçons d’hétérodoxie, ce furent des influences érasmiennes, ainsi que des suggestions venues de Boccace et de l’Arétin, qui lui permirent d’élaborer un style discursif masquant sa polémique contre les faiblesses morales de l’Église.

An Addition to Annibal Caro's Lettere Familiari: Notes on a Letter to Benedetto Varchi*

1974 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-305
Author(s):  
Richard S. Samuels
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Wide Circle ◽  
Circle Of Friends ◽  
Annibal Caro

The private letters of Annibal Caro (1507-66) collectively offer numerous insights into the literary, scholarly, artistic, and political life of mid-sixteenth-century Italy. Even if it were not for the sheer bulk of Caro's correspondence, and its even distribution throughout the years of his maturity, it would constitute an important historical source simply because he had such a broad range of interests and such a wide circle of friends. As a personal secretary, first to Monsignor Giovanni Gaddi, then to Alessandro and Pier Luigi Farnese, and as a friend of both Marcello Cervini (Marcellus II) and Giovanni Antonio Fachinetti (Innocent IX), Caro had extensive inside knowledge of the political and ecclesiastical activities of the Roman curia at its highest levels.

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