Emanuele Tesauro [SEP] place of death
Emanuele Tesauro
Emanuele Tesauro (1592–1675) was a rhetorician, dramatist, Marinist poet, and historian from Turin.
His "Il Cannocchiale Aristotelico", originally published in 1654, is a work on tropes, literally the oxymoronic "Aristotelian telescope". Its main concern is the invention and wit of ingenious metaphors. It has been called "one of the most important statements of poetics in seventeenth-century Europe". Metaphor he calls the "Great Mother of All Witticisms". In Umberto Eco's "The Island
Tesauro : signe, figure, sujet », "Baroque" n° 9-10, 1980, p. 76-90
- Ezio Raimondi, « Ingegno e metafora nella poetica del Tesauro », "Il Verri" n° II, 1958; texte repris dans "Letteratura barocca", Florence, Olschki, 1982
- D. Kelly, "Tradition and Innovation in" Il cannocchiale aristotelico "of Emanuele Tesauro", in "Altro Polo : A Volume of Italian Studies", University of Sydney, 1984