L’esperienza “lirica” di Gaspare Ambrogio Visconti: appunti sui Rithimi (e sul Canzoniere per Beatrice d’Este)

The essay focuses on Gaspare Ambrogio’s first canzoniere, called Rithimi (1493), and analyses its textual history, its macrotextual structure and its relationship with other models. If Petrarch remains a beloved starting point, Visconti’s writings show contacts with many other authors, both ancient and modern, both Latin and vulgar, both on the microtextual and macrotextual level. A final comparison with the second canzoniere dedicated to Beatrice d’Este (ca. 1495-1496) allows to mark the difference between the two works of the author and specify the general characteristics of his lyrical production.