La sátira latina en la Poética de J. C. Escalígero

Abstract

The imitatio veterum and the theories handed down by Aristotle, Horace and the rhetoricians were central in shaping Renaissance aesthetic and literary ideas, as well as works of imaginative literature. In his Poetices Libri Septem Scaligerus the main references to satire are found in three of the seven books: Book I, Historicus, Book III, Idea, and Book VI, Hypercriticus. In the first, the author analyses the origin of the genre and its types; in the third he deals with satire from the viewpoint of inventio, and in the sixth he organises satirical authors into five ages, from Antiquity to the Renaissance. In footnotes we provide the Latin text of the passages referring to passages mentioning the satirical genre, as well as the translation, commentary and analysis of the interpretations put forward by the author who, widely known and quoted by his contemporaries and followers, sets the limits of the satirical genre, putting Juvenal before Horace himself.