Clasicismo e imitación compuesta: las odas de Bernardo Tasso en
su contexto
The aim of this paper is to study the first Italian odes based
on Horatce’s model reconsidering their role within the orthodox
petrarchism delineated by Pietro Bembo. To this purpose,
BernardoTasso’s 55 odes (1534-1560) and 30 psalmos (1560) will
be analyzed using the concept of imitación compuesta and stressing
the evolution from prophane to religious poetry. The choice of
BernardoTasso is justified not only by the fact that he is one of the
first Italian petrarchists to imitate Horace, but also by the fact that
the metric formula he invented, the lira, was used by Garcilaso de
la Vega becoming, in Spain, the model for moral and sacred poetry,
a process started by Tasso. In the appendix an alphabetic list of
the texts with printing dates and information about their musical
transpositions will be provided, together with a list of the odes
classified according to their metric schemes.