Metamorfosi pescatorie: l’uso delle fonti in Giulio Cesare Capaccio

This article examines the late sixteenth-century Campanian scholar Giulio Cesare Capaccio’s Mergellina, a rewriting of Paolo Regio’s Siracusa Piscatoria, itself a maritime reinterpretation of Jacopo Sannazaro’s Arcadia. Identifying the sources of this work allows for a definition of the author’s strategy: even as he places himself within the Neapolitan ‘Piscatorian’ tradition, at the same time, he draws upon the illustrated zoological production and the periegetic literature of the period, consistently imitating his source materials in an explicitly creative way.