Les limites et le rapport avec les modèles du genre héroï-comique Les chants IX et X du Seau enlevé (Secchia rapita)

The topic of my article is the use of the topoi of xvith century Italian epic tradition in the Alessandro Tassoni’s mock-heroic poem The rape of the bucket. In the first part the subject is the link between Tassoni, Ariosto and Tasso. The second part analyses the IX and the X canto of the Rape, because they are two very representative cases of the Tassoni’s overturning of the traditional epics features.