Emanuele Tesauro
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Frontispice of the 1670 edition of Cannocchiale aristotelico by Emanuele Tesauro (1592-1675).
Emanuele Tesauro (1592–1675) was a rhetorician, dramatist, Marinist poet, and historian from Turin.
His Il Cannocchiale Aristotelico, originally published in 1654, is a work on tropes, literally the oxymoronic "Aristotelian telescope". Its main concern is the invention and wit of ingenious metaphors.[1] It has been called "one of the most important statements of poetics in seventeenth-century Europe".[2] Metaphor he calls the "Great Mother of All Witticisms". In Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before, these themes are self-consciously taken up, through the character Padre Emanuele and his metaphor-machine.[3]
Partial bibliography
- Ermenegildo, Edippo, Ippolito (1621)
- L’Idea delle perfette imprese (1622)
- Il Giudicio (1625)
- Panegirici, published by Bartolomeo Zavatta, Turin, (1659).
- Il cannocchiale aristotelico, o' sia, idea dell'arguta et ingeniosa elocutione, che serve a tutta l'Arte Oratoria, Lapidaria, et Simbolica., Venice, Presso Paolo Baglioni, 1664.
- Inscriptiones (1670)
- La Filosofia morale derivata dall'alto Fonte del Grande Ariostotele Stagirita, published by Presso Nicolo Pezzana, Venice (1679).
- Campeggiamenti overo Istorie del Piemonte, published by Giacomo Monti, Bologna, 1674.
- Dell’arte delle lettere missive published by Giovanni Recaldini, Bologna (1678).
- Del Regno D'Italia sotto i barbari., published by Presso Giovanni Giacomo Hertz, in Venice (1680).
Notes
- ↑ George Alexander Kennedy, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (1989), p. 448.
- ↑ Jon R. Snyder,Mare Magnum: the arts in the early modern age, p. 162, in John A. Marino, editor, Early modern Italy (2002).
- ↑ Cristina Farronato, Eco's Chaosmos: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity (2003), p. 26.
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