Merope

Un racconto allegorico-satirico sulla polemica Maffei-Voltaire: «La naissance de Clinquant», Atti del xxi Congresso dell’adi, Le forme del comico, Firenze, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 6-9 settembre 2017, a cura di Francesca Castellano, Irene Gambacorti, Ilaria Macera, Giulia Tellini, Firenze, Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2019 (http://www.italianisti.it/Atti-di-Congresso?pg=cms&ext=p&cms_codsec=14&cms_codcms=1164), pp. 428-438

Se desarrolla una estrategia metodológica para  aproximarse a temas complejos y ricos en información desde la divulgación, con el fin de lograr constituir una sólida plataforma con contenidos necesarios de comunicar, relevantes y significativospara la audiencia. Se sitúa la entrevista estratégica a expertos como el punto de partida para orientar decisiones sobre la estructura de temas. Se expone el resultado de la investigación bajo esta estrategia en Machupicchu. Con ellocomo plataforma, se sugiere la estructura temática base para la divulgación de este importante lugar patrimonial

This essay provides an analysis of a long-forgotten novel about Lord Byron, The Missolonghi Manuscript (1968), written by the American author Frederic Prokosch (1906-1989).
Born in a cosmopolitan and well educated family in Madison, Wisconsin, Prokosch travelled widely for much of his life through Europe, writing books that aroused the admiration of Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Thornton Wilder and of his long-dated friend Gore Vidal.
At first sight a reconstruction of the lost memoirs of Lord Byron, The Missolonghi Manuscript actually is, in his author’s words, ‘a study of the romantic artist’. As a consequence, the novel seems to transcends Byron’s life involving reflections on the way Romantic art changed the history of ideas.
Focusing on the reasons that led Prokosch to write his imaginary portrait of the ‘Wicked Lord’ and examining the modalities of his literary depiction of Byron, this work explores how history and biography blend together in The Missolonghi Manuscript in order to depict the Zeitgeist of the Romantic Era.
Finally, this essay aims to revaluate the position of Frederic Prokosch in XX century literature, stressing the importance of The Missolonghi Manuscript as a precursor to that kind of postmodernist historical fiction notably practised by Anthony Burgess, A.S Byatt and Umberto Eco.

H παρούσα μελέτη επικεντρώνεται στη χρήση και λειτουργία των αρχαιοελληνικών ονομάτων στην ευρωπαϊκή δραματουργία μεταξύ του 16ου και του 19ου αιώνα. Εκατοντάδες θεατρικά και μουσικά έργα πλημμυρίζουν από ονόματα αρχαίων θεών, ημιθέων, ηρώων και ηρωίδων που δρουν σε επίσης ελληνικούς γεωγραφικούς χώρους. Τα μυθολογικά πρόσωπα προέρχονται τόσο από γνωστά επεισόδια της ελληνικής μυ-θολογίας, όπως η θυσία της Ιφιγένειας στην Αυλίδα, όσο και από λιγότερο δημο-φιλή θέματα, όπως η θυσία της κόρης του Αριστόδημου. Οι δε ήρωες καλύπτουν ένα μεγάλο εύρος χαρακτήρων που ξεκινούν από πολύ γνωστές προσωπικότητες, όπως ο Μέγας Αλέξανδρος και φτάνουν σε λιγότερο οικείες μορφές, όπως η Με-ρόπη και ο Αγησίλαος.
This study focuses on the use and operation of the ancient Greek names in European dramaturgy between the 16th and 19th centuries. Hundreds of theatrical and musical works are inundated with names of ancient gods, semi-gods, heroes and heroines who also operate in Greek geographical spaces. Mythological figures come from well-known episodes of Greek mythology, such as the sacrifice of Ifigenia at Aulis, as well as from less popular subjects, such as the sacrifice of Aristodemus' daughter. The heroes cover a wide range of characters from well-known personalities, such as Alexander the Great, to less-familiar images, such as Me-rope and Agesilaus

Almeida Garrett finished Ms tragedy Merope in 1820, the year of the liberal revolution in Portugal. And because of those events, he never presented it to the public. In this dramatic text, the first he indeed finished, Garrett begins his path to the tragic theatre. He takes an euripidean theme, from the lost play Kresphontes, and builds it with aeschylian, sophoclian and, specialy, euripidean motives. It is true that the portuguese poet had not the Greeks but the works of Voltaire, Alfieri and Maffei as models; but even so, he thought the theme was convenient to his ideas and wrote the play in order to present his politic message of a classical mind begining the way to liberalism/romantic movement. So, Merope'& essential idea is the apology for freedom and the refuse of despostism mixed with an eternal mother's love story. With these arguments, Garrett made a tragedy, in which we find some elements that define a classical structure, with a happy ending, like his optimistic youth did prefer.

Se desarrolla una estrategia metodológica para  aproximarse a temas complejos y ricos en información desde la divulgación, con el fin de lograr constituir una sólida plataforma con contenidos necesarios de comunicar, relevantes y significativospara la audiencia. Se sitúa la entrevista estratégica a expertos como el punto de partida para orientar decisiones sobre la estructura de temas. Se expone el resultado de la investigación bajo esta estrategia en Machupicchu. Con ellocomo plataforma, se sugiere la estructura temática base para la divulgación de este importante lugar patrimonial