La doctrina métrica en el "De poeta" de Minturno

Abstract

El sigla XVI es enormemente fructífero en reflexiones y tratados sobre crítica literária, y principalmente sobre teoria poética. Uno de sus poetólogos más conocidos es el italiano ANTONIO MINTURNO, autor de dos tratados, el De poeta y L'arte poética, dedicados respectivamente a poesia en latín y en italiano. De ellos, el primero ha sido hasta ahora el menos estudiado. Abordamos en este trabajo la doctrina sobre métrica que Mintumo plasma en su obra. A través del estudio comparado con su principal fuente, el Orator de Cicerón, podemos comprobar que el tratadista italiano posee una concepción muy retorizada de la ciência poética, de forma que aborda la cuestión métrica desde la óptica de una teoria del ritmo inspirada directamente en el Arpinate.

The 16th century is really fruitful on reflections and treatise about criticism, especially about poetic theory. One of its best known poetic writers is the Italian ANTONIO MlNTURNO, author of two treatises, De poeta and L'arte poética, respectively dedicated to Latin and Italian poetry. The former of these has not been the object of much study as yet,at least not so much as the other. In this work we undertake the study of the metrical doctrine that Mintumo outlines in his book. Through a comparative study with the most important source, Cicero's Orator, we can verify that the Italian author has got a very rhetorical conception of the poetic science, so that he treats the metrical question from the point of view of a theory directly inspired by the Arpinat.