Verso sciolto

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The verso sciolto ( Italian "unbound verse"; plural versi sciolti ) designates the rhyming verse in Italian poetry , usually an endecasillabi , i.e. an eleven-silver . Versi sciolti are documented from the 13th century and are used in the 16th century to replace the ancient hexameter or trimeter , as in Gian Giorgio Trissino ( L 'Italia liberata dai goti , 1548) and in the Aeneid translation by Annibale Caro ( L'Eneide di Virgilio , posthumously 1581). Ugo Foscolo and Alessandro Manzoni use them in the didactic poem and through Vittorio Alfieri they become the standard verse of tragedy, similar to the blank verse in German poetry. By Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni used especially in lyrical works.

literature

  • Dieter Burdorf, Christoph Fasbender, Burkhard Moennighoff (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexicon literature. Terms and definitions. 3. Edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6 , p. 806.