LA SATIRA SECENTESCA: MODI, FORME, QUESTIONI

The aim of the dissertation is to offer a modern monograph on the seventeenth-century satirical genre, starting from a theoretical perspective and enriching it through a specific examination of the historical developments and structural constants of the genre. The thesis is divided into three sections, the first (Introduction to the seventeenth-century satire) offers a historical overview of the developments of this kind of satire, and its delineation well in the determination of the corpus examined. The second (Metasatire) is strictly theoretical, and is intended to illustrate the statute of such seventeenth-century satire through the drawing up that is provided by the satirists themselves, whose metaliterary sections included in satires are examined, or side works aimed at a general speculation. The third section (Narration) is ultimately of a structural nature, since it aims, on several levels, to illustrate the narrative strategies that feed the seventeenth-century satirical genre, relying on the main narratological categories and moving from the distinction between the authorial personality of the writer and the literary figure of a moral satirist-narrator who says ‘I’.