Dal primo al secondo Sacrificio del Beccari, una favola pastorale a cavallo Della Controriforma

Abstract

In the sixteenth century, the tendency towards regularization in the classical sense, the adjustment to the Aristotelian canon, the pressures of the so-called Catholic Reformation are becoming more intense and lead to revision of many works. More than thirty years after the first publication of his pastoral tale Sacrificio, Agostino Beccari decided to write a second draft of the work. The variations made by Beccari in 1587, when the author had as model Tasso’s Aminta, evidently intended to bring a rise in accordance with the work style trend after the Council of Trent.