Martin Opitz e il progetto di una nuova letteratura tedesca all’insegna del concetto di "universalis reformatio"

Opitz’s work is inextricably linked to the desire for rebellion and self-assertion in Silesia, a German-speaking Protestant province within the Habsburg territories, elected as the main place of refuge after the Battle of White Mountain by the Protestants who had supported Frederick V and the idea of universalis reformatio connected with him. The article intends to briefly reconstruct the genesis of the seventeenth-century concept of universalis reformatio, with the aim to analyse the weight it assumed in the great linguistic-poetic renewal initiated by Opitz, both with the publication of his "Buch von der deutschen Poeterey" and with his work in verse.