Espedienti tipografici ed esperimenti metrici umanistici

[Autom. eng. transl.] Between the 15th and 16th centuries, neo-Latin experimental poetic production in Italy experienced a push towards figural and almost enigmistic forms. As shown by G. Pozzi, various authors delighted in the composition of "carmina figurata", cross-linked and sotadic and acrostic verses. In addition to the metric field, the phenomenon has also left traces in the field of young typography, to which these poets began to entrust their works. The desire to make these literary games, often based on the position of words, visible to the reader, forced printers to adopt curious and effective formal expedients. The contribution aims to study this production, concentrating on the emblematic cases of the collections of two authors: the "Opuscula" of the Ravenna-born L. Catti (1502) and the "Epigrammaton libri" of the Milanese L. Curti (1521). The presence of calligrams, of "carmina" organized in boxes, as well as the instrumental use of spacing, punctuation and capital letters, insert these anthologies both in the tradition of Latin "carmina figurata" and in that of Hellenistic "technopaegnia". Furthermore, the existence of handwritten witnesses to these experiments will allow us to analyze the similarities and differences between the solutions adopted by copyists and typographers.