On the language of Giovanni Battista Lalli's "Franceide"

Abstract

Giovan Battista Lalli composed several comic works in verse, attributable to the heroic-comic genre despite a far from rigorous adherence to the canons of the genre according to Alessandro Tassoni’s formulation (a trait that, moreover, unites Lalli to other authors of heroic-comic poems). This contribution presents some observations on the style and language of the Franceide, a poem on syphilis published by Lalli in 1629.