SATYR SCENES IN EARLY MODERN PADUA: VALERIA MIANI’SAMOROSA SPERANZAAND FRANCESCO CONTARINI’SFIDA NINFA

Abstract

This article examines the links between two early modern pastoral dramas, Valeria Miani’s Amorosa speranza (1604) and Francesco Contarini’s Fida Ninfa (1595), focusing on the parallels between their satyr scenes. Miani and Contarini were both part of the literary circles of early modern Padua, and the comparison between their plays offers an opportunity to observe the ‘meeting’ of two very different authorial figures from the same city: a leading male figure of the academic establishment, and a woman writer, marginal in literary terms but highly visible socially. Their treatment of the satyr scenes — which share a storyline — allows for an analysis of the concerns held by educated Paduan society; but it also underlines Miani’s pro-feminist message.

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