A Contribution to the Critical Edition of Paolo Rolli’s Poems. With the Edition and Commentary of Elegia I

Abstract

The article offers a general recognition of the editions of Paolo Rolli’s Elegie, and paves the way for the complete critical edition of his poetic work. Then, it provides a commentary of Elegia I that sheds a light on the vast number of literary sources that inspired the author, and on a rich and complex intertextual weave that draws on both Italian and Latin models (i.e. Sannazaro, Ariosto, Bernardo Tasso, Marino; Tibullus, Ovid, Horace, Virgil…). The essay also provides an appendix with Elegia I’s text and critical apparatus.