«Rimovere il velo da la scena»: Sul mutamento linguistico della «Conquistata»

The research has been developed with the objective of analyzing the linguistic rework of the «Gerusalemme Conquistata», initially focusing on ideological and content differences compared to the «Liberata», then on the linguistic modalities of the second poem in order to identify potential alterations with respect to the first. After a careful observation of the sixteenth-century polemical writings written by the Academicians of the Crusca and the defenses of Tasso and other literary men, the linguistic features discussed were isolated and their frequency was verified in parallel in the two works and in the contemporary and previous production, in order to investigate the origin of the critical interventions and of the new stylistic choices of the poet.