The Naturalization of Torquato Tasso’s Narrative Theory by the French Academy

Although neoclassical rules were commonly associated with the founding of the French Academy by Richelieu in 1635, their origin is actually Italian. The first Latin translation of Aristotle’s Poetics in 1494 stimulated an unprecedented interest in the conceptions of poetic art. Italian scholars tran...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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