Aproximación a la poética de Julio César Escalígero

Abstract

Passionate about literature, especially in Latin, and poetry, Julius Caesar Scaliger has endeavoured in his Poetics to discuss these in a systematic and exhaustive manner with the purpose of creating a definitive treatise on poetics, a synthesis of the theory and the history of literature. Therefore, he took into consideration the most important treatises of Antiquity (Aristotle, Horace, Hermo-genes of Tarsus), as well as the contemporary (Marco Girolamo Vida). Not only did he present their doctrines, but he has also rebutted them, pointed out differences and put forward his own ideas throughout all the treatise, in such a way that we can say that he has been the most original author of all who have attempted a similar task in the Renaissance.