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Title: "Comme t'ha fatto mammeta": Il topos classico della descriptio puellae in una canzone classica napoletana
Authors: Taccini, Lorenzo
Mariscal, Gabriel Laguna
Martínez Sariego, Mónica María 
UNESCO Clasification: 5701 Lingüística aplicada
Keywords: Neapolitan Song
Description Of The Beloved
Classical Reception
Eroticism
Literary Topos
Issue Date: 2024
Journal: Cuadernos de filología clásica. Estudios latinos 
Abstract: This article surveys the literary topos of the descriptio puellae in Classical literature as a source for its later recreation in the classical Neapolitan song "Come facette mammeta" (1906). The subject knows two main modalities: one more erotic and the other more idealized. The analysis begins with a Greek epigram (AP 5.132) by the poet Philodemus of Gadara and with an elegy by Ovid (Am.1.5.17-26), which became the classical model in European letters. In Philodemus' and Ovid's treatments, the sensual description of the girl leads to the act of love. On the other hand, the description of the beloved, in an idealized manner which we call blazon, has precedents in Latin poetry (Catullus, Propertius) and was cultivated in the Renaissance from Petrarch on (Canzoniere 90). In the song "Come facette mammeta", the beloved is imagined having been created by her mother from certain ingredients. The description focuses on three physical attributes: the color of her body (a blend of white and red), the mouth (likened to strawberries and sweet spices), and the hair (compared to gold). This song, while generically evoking the libidinous descriptions of Philodemus and Ovid, and the idealized treatment by Petrarch, has been directly inspired by Propertius (2.3.9-28).
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/133326
ISSN: 1131-9062
DOI: 10.5209/cfcl.97025
Source: Cuadernos de filologia clasica. Estudios Latinos [ISSN 1131-9062], v. 44 (1), p. 93-103
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