LA CORRISPONDENZA IN VERSI NEGLI HENDECASYLLABORUM LIBRI SEU BAIAE DI GIOVANNI PONTANO.

The essay examines Giovanni Pontano's Hendecasyllaborum libri seu Baiae from the perspective of verse correspondence, highlighting how the collection assigns a prominent role to the members of the Neapolitan Academy. The analysis of the poetic dialogue is useful to specify one of the key concepts of Pontano's production, the sodalitas, and to specify the role that such a literary practice plays in providing, to readers beyond the circle, an exemplary representation of group identity. It is remarkable, moreover, that in a canzoniere containing only carmina by the same author, only one response text is preserved: these considerations form the basis of this contribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]