Giovan Battista Casti, "Il poema tartaro". Edizione critica e commento.
Journal: Padua@research (University of Padova)
Year: 2013

My thesis is a critical edition of the Poema tartaro by the libertine abbot Giovan Battista Casti (1724-1803). This work is a long octave poem, which satirizes, in accordance with the rules of the mock-heroic genre, Catherine IIâs Russian court, where the author lived for years (1776-1779) as a member of the Hapsburg diplomacy. Although Casti was the Austrian courtâs official poet, his work never received the authorization to be printed: the emperor Joseph II, after his 1781 alliance with Ru