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	https://modernbeatricesarchive.org/s/mba/item-set/5704
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Title
	http://viaf.org/viaf/168958973 Arcadian Academy, Italian literary academy founded in Rome in 1690
	Poesia improvvisata (Improvised poetry)
Description
	In addition to the authors and works mentioned, Faustina Maratti Zappi’s sonnets “Bosco caligino, orrido e cieco” draws extensively lexical elements from the infernal landscape, while “Se é ver che a un cenno del crudel Caronte”, explores the theme of death, memory and the afterlife through the explicit reference to sequences from Inferno III.  Petronilla Paolini Massimi’s “Se alle nostre foreste avviene, che arriva”, reveal Dante a more subtle yet ‘inatteso riferimento per l’immaginario poetico’ connected to ideas of the divine light.  A more extensive and sophisticated appropriation of the ‘espressività del Dante infernale’ is found in the corona di sonetti composed by Maria Selvaggia Borghini to commemorate the 1695 death of Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany.

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