Alessandro Piccolomini (1508-1579): an hypothesis of a "upside down world"
Abstract
In this article we consider the perspective that Piccolomini adopts in works with characters, interlocutors or recipients women, in order to propose a new interpretation that can overcome the vexata quaestio phylogy / misogyny, already deepened by critics, and to try to dispel doubts about the true nature of these writings. Through the analysis of La Raffaella and Oratione in lode delle donne, a distancing of the "Stordito" from rigid ideological positions emerges to use the ironic and playful perspective of the " upside down world", in which elements such as the overturning of vices take shape of women by virtue of social conventionality, stereotypes and the real world through the playful code.
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