Una voce buona. Risonanze tassiane nel Conte di Carmagnola

Starting from some of Tasso’s quotations in Conte di Carmagnola, the essay considers the importance given to the teaching of the late sixteenth-century epic poet in Manzoni’s work. In Gerusalemme liberata – this is the author’s purpose in the following pages – the Milanese writer could catch not only some elements useful to the representation of the inner man, but also a series of episodes which, inserted in their original diegetic development, can provide a moral teaching, too, not to mention the rest. Through some crossreferences to Tasso’s poem, the intertextual mechanism, as other rhetorical solutions, involves and forms the ideal Manzoni’s spectator, that is – as everybody knows – the judgespectator, constantly invited to consider the moral plausibility of the represented actions.