Uno sconfinamento barocco nel Settecento: Giuseppe D'Alessandro e le poesie sull'orologio

[Machine translation] The clock motif, which recurs almost obsessively in baroque lyric but which seems to die out at the end of the 17th century, reappears in the collection of rhymes by Giuseppe D'Alessandro, Duke of Pescolanciano, the poetic jungle published in Naples in 1713. The Molise feudal poet, admirer of Marino but also of Petrarca, takes up in his compositions the imaginary and metaphorical repertoire that the Baroque lyric had developed around the various types of clocks, but opts for short metric forms (madrigals, quatrains) and imprints his speech on a linearity of argument and a syntactic and lexical clarity that are linked to contemporary archaic experiences, and, at the same time, to the incipient season of Enlightenment.