Adiaphory and the Vocation to Suicide: Themes from Seneca and Neostoicism in Sixteenth to Seventeenth-Century Italian Tragedy · The essay explores the diffusion of Neostoic motifs in the Italian tragedy of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with particular attention to the representation of suicide and the vocation of the protagonists to the adiaforia (detachment). Taking into account the French, Spanish and English situation, the author shows that the presence of Seneca as an aesthetic model does not always entail that the Italian playwrights share the Stoic principles, which are instead presented with greater conviction in republican contexts – and in particular in Genoa, where Ansaldo Cebà was active –, where the Neostoic writings were appreciated in particular from a theoretical-political point of view.
Adiaforia e vocazione al suicidio: motivi senecani e neostoici nella tragedia italiana fra Cinque e Seicento
zucchi, e.
2018
Abstract
Adiaphory and the Vocation to Suicide: Themes from Seneca and Neostoicism in Sixteenth to Seventeenth-Century Italian Tragedy · The essay explores the diffusion of Neostoic motifs in the Italian tragedy of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with particular attention to the representation of suicide and the vocation of the protagonists to the adiaforia (detachment). Taking into account the French, Spanish and English situation, the author shows that the presence of Seneca as an aesthetic model does not always entail that the Italian playwrights share the Stoic principles, which are instead presented with greater conviction in republican contexts – and in particular in Genoa, where Ansaldo Cebà was active –, where the Neostoic writings were appreciated in particular from a theoretical-political point of view.
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