Gaspare Ambrogio e Boiardo lirico

The article highlights the memory of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Amorum libri tres in Gaspare Ambrogio Visconti's lyrical production, and in particular in his Rithimi, showing how Boiardo is treated as an authoritative model, even if to a degree not comparable to Petrarca and Giusto de' Conti. Different kinds of literary debts are identified: from those of a more properly interdiscursive nature to those that expose in the incipit the memory of Boiardo to those that have possible structural implications. It is also shown how contacts with the Amorum libri are sometimes part of a relationship with other authors, which could also include a vast anonymous collection of the Este area, the so-called Canzoniere Costabili.