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This research has been devoted to Vincenzo Monti's early literary production. The aim of the analysis and exegesis was the identification of the typical features of Monti's style and poetic language, in an attempt to understand how the rhetorical and lexical repertoires were formed and developed. The systematic analysis of the poems dating until 1778, the year of the landing in Rome, allows to observe closely the evolution of Monti's poetic, leading to identify specific stylistic marks and recurring motifs that form the basis of Monti's language. The research has been divided into three distinct phases. First, a reconstruction of the political and social context in which the young Monti had begun to take its first steps as a versifier was needed. The first chapter traces the various poeta's formation stages, starting by describing the Seminary of Faenza activities, where Monti begin his studies, and finally coming to analyze Monti's arrival in Ferrara and his entrance into the most exclusive literary circles of the city. This analysis is also an opportunity to understand what were the intellectual solicitations received from various masters (Santoni, Contoli, Maccabelli), and which authors of the tradition exercised their influence on young Monti. The second chapter is entirely devoted to a detailed study of the sonnets composed by Monti before 1775. The identification of a little known poems corpus has allowed to conduct systematic analysis of young Monti's rhetoric trends, and has led to the recognition of well identifiable and characteristic stylistic features in the author's poetic language. The sonnets has been analyzed from a metrical, syntactical and linguistic point of view, elaborating then the results of the exegesis through a comparation with the data derived from the works of Frugoni, Minzoni and Varano, unanimously recognized as models of young Monti. The third and final chapter analyzes the works subsequent to the first major turning point of Monti's literary career, namely the appointment as a member of Arcadia Academy in 1775. From this event, the poetry of Monti faces a sensitive change, dictated by the need of the poet to experience all available literary genres in order to prove himself as an excellent and versatile versifier. The sonnets are now flanked by the so-called Visioni, the Anacreontiche, the canzonette and more. According to Monti, the ductility of his laudatory poems would have made him worthy of important protections. Protections that, in fact, were obtained in a short space of years and that opened for him the gates of Rome, in 1778. The career of Monti was ready for a new twist.
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