Lacrime ducali : forme e funzioni dell’encomio funebre per Alessandro Farnese (1592)

The essay focuses on the conspicuous post-mortem encomiastic production, concentrating on the specific event of death, which accompanied the death of Duke Alexander in December 1592, as well as the funeral that followed. The analysis will focus on the variety of poetic solutions adopted and will concentrate on the formal aspect of organizing a critical review of the evidence found: for the more or less narrative status of the text, the aims pursued in the eulogy project, and the focus on specific aspects of the celebratory portrait of the Farnese hero depend on the stylistic modality of the postmortem elogium.