was in January 29, 1475 that Lorenzo the Magnificent, ruler of Florence, decided to organize a tournament commemorating the peace agreement between the principal Italian powers, signed the previous year. Precisely because of this tournament the humanist poet Angelo Poliziano gave birth to a poem, considered his masterpiece, the "rooms for the tournament" and this poem, however, remained unfinished at the death of Giuliano de 'Medici, Lorenzo's brother and protagonist of the poem, under the name of Iulus young handsome and very experienced in the hunting, but contemptuous of love, and therefore subject to the anger of Cupid, with a cunning ploy that brings the sight of the beautiful nymph Simonetta. The platonic love between the two is the theme at issue in the poem, which is very unusual, because the work is a poem in "eighth" and therefore purely celebratory games and races, but the environment of the carousel by which hosts the event is none other than un'espediente, as we see clearly Ghino Ghinassi, which does not prevent the police to enter certain topics and themes according to his taste, quotes from other famous authors, such as the white doe leading Iulus the nymph of Petrarchan influence, vulgar references to poets like Dante, and still others of Greek and Latin authors such as Ovid, Virgil and Claudian (de raptu Proserpinae) . Essential is also the resumption of the orphan which characters find themselves in the behavior of Iulus, devoted to hunting and vowed to chastity as the goddess Diana, and from those behaviors you can leave, according to Poliziano, until the discovery of love and total surrender to it, a dismal prospect of the death penalty, which would meet Iulus with his behavior, this also suggested by the fact that the goddess Diana not only hunting but also is associated with death.
At this point the importance of love is evident in the poem. Not only is the referent of a moral message, but also influence the style of Poliziano, both tending to linguistic perfection through successful union between the various literary styles and a vocabulary very select, how to perfect the work propendente morally and psychologically through love, along with thematic and ideological core of the poem .
Stella Corda
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