This essay studies a play by Domenico Laffi (1636-?), La fedeltà anche doppo morte overo il regnare anche doppo morte: its author presents it as a «tragedy drawn from Portuguese», but it is actually the translation of Reinar después de morir by the Spanish playwright Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579-1644). Firstly, in this analysis special attention is paid to the relevance and to the various uses of ancient poetic works, that is romances, that can be found in Luis Vélez de Guevara’s text; the second part of the paper aims to explain how and why Laffi chooses not to translate those very parts of his Spanish model, which he replaces with fragments borrowed from late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian works instead.
Un segundón nell'Italia del XVII secolo: Luis Vélez de Guevara e Domenico Laffi vis-à-vis
daniele crivellari
2019
Abstract
This essay studies a play by Domenico Laffi (1636-?), La fedeltà anche doppo morte overo il regnare anche doppo morte: its author presents it as a «tragedy drawn from Portuguese», but it is actually the translation of Reinar después de morir by the Spanish playwright Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579-1644). Firstly, in this analysis special attention is paid to the relevance and to the various uses of ancient poetic works, that is romances, that can be found in Luis Vélez de Guevara’s text; the second part of the paper aims to explain how and why Laffi chooses not to translate those very parts of his Spanish model, which he replaces with fragments borrowed from late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian works instead.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
