L'Adone
Sign in to save'''''L'Adone''' (Adonis) is an epic poem in Italian by Giovan Battista Marino, first published in Paris in 1623 by Olivier de Varennes (1598-1666) and dedicated to Louis XIII. It tells the love story of Venus and the eponymous Adonis and with 5,124 ottave and 40,992 verses is one of the longest poems in Italian literature - it is slightly longer than Orlando furioso and around three times as long as the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme liberata''.
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32 sectionsContents
- Writing
- Plot
- La Fortuna (canto I)
- Il Palagio d'Amore (canto II)
- L'Innamoramento (canto III)
- La Novelletta (canto IV)
- La Tragedia (canto V)
- Il Giardino del Piacere (canto VI)
- Le Delizie (canto VII)
- I Trastulli (canto VIII)
- La Fontana d'Apollo (canto IX)
- Le Maraviglie (canto X)
- Le Bellezze (canto XI)
- La Fuga (canto XII)
- La Prigione (canto XIII)
- Gli Errori (canto XIV)
- Il Ritorno (canto XV)
- La Corona (canto XVI)
- La Dipartita (canto XVII)
- La Morte (canto XVIII)
- La Sepoltura (canto XIX)
- Gli Spettacoli (canto XX)
- Problem with sources
- Poetic structure
- Reception
- Church
- Literary critics
- Musical adaptations
- Critical editions
- References
- Bibliography (in Italian)
- External links
'''''L'Adone''' (Adonis) is an epic poem in Italian by Giovan Battista Marino, first published in Paris in 1623 by Olivier de Varennes (1598-1666) and dedicated to Louis XIII. It tells the love story of Venus and the eponymous Adonis and with 5,124 ottave and 40,992 verses is one of the longest poems in Italian literature - it is slightly longer than Orlando furioso and around three times as long as the Divina Commedia and Gerusalemme liberata''.
Before its twenty canti, the volume also contains a preface by the French critic Jean Chapelain justifying the poem as an epic but not heroic "poem of peace", followed by an introductory letter addressed to queen Marie de' Medici (then ruling as regent for her son Louis) asking her to intercede with the king on the poet's behalf.