Tra memoria poetica e autocitazione. Ossessioni verbali e funerarie nell’“Arcadia”

Incessantly in search for solutions, Sannazaro rewrites every topos. From a close examination of a few words and expressions from Sannazaro’s Arcadia, poems, and works in Latin, one can derive a universal and very modern axiom: vis-à-vis the oblivion of death, men have a single consolation, that of a sole – it does not matter where and how it is – that keeps their mortal remains and grants everlasting rest to those who never had peace or lost it.