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Article: Emblematic narrative in Caro's Gli straccioni (with an Eye to Titian's Paul III).(Critical Essay)
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- Italica
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- June 22, 2004
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This I say therefore.... That ye put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceifful lusts; And ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. (Paul, Ephesians 4: 22-24)
FOllowing his papal commission in 1543, Pierluigi Farnese's secretary Annibal Caro (1507-1566) refused repeatedly to have his comedy Gli straccioni performed or even circulated. The author's protestations appear to revolve around his concern for verisimilitude and the difficulty of reconciling historical specificity with ideal representation. Modern critics have suggested that the author failed in this regard, producing a text that instead ...