«Intrecci di fiori e di allori» Dialoghi italo-tedeschi su letteratura e linguistica. Una nascita controversa

Abstract

In 1983, Wilhelm Pötters introduced to the Italian attention a new theory on the genesis of the sonnet based on the relationship between mathematics and metrics, integrating the problem of ‘derivation’ with that of ‘invention’: it was the beginning of a heated debate, initiated by a single research project in Germany and welcomed in Italy by touchy refusals or enthusiastic acceptance, of which this contribution gives an overall interpretation.