Per Lavisio Eginetico debuttante: Il monte Liceo (Bologna 1750)

Abstract

The paper aims to offer a careful study of the pastoral novel Il monte Liceo written by the count Ludovico Savioli (1729-1804). Published for the first and only time in 1750 in Bologna, the work is now read as a mean of author’s self-fashoning in the context of the intellectual and literary culture of the mid-18th century as well as an example of the late reception of Iacopo Sannazaro’s Arcadia. The analysis of Savioli’s close imitation of his Renaissance model reveals also the many ways in which the young count was able to differentiate his own work.