Knowra Marinism Marinism Marinism is an Italian Baroque poetic style marked by elaborate conceits, verbal ingenuity, sensual imagery, and rhetorical extravagance. It is associated with the poet Giambattista Marino.
Giambattista Marino : An Italian poet whose elaborate, sensual verse gave Marinism its name. His poetry established the style’s characteristic ingenuity and excess.
Adone : Giambattista Marino’s epic poem, published in 1623, about the love of Venus and Adonis. Its ornate episodes and sensual descriptions are the fullest showcase of Marinist practice.
Italian Baroque literature : Italian writing from the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, shaped by Baroque forms and concerns. Marinism became one of its most conspicuous poetic currents.
Classicism : An artistic approach that values models and principles drawn from ancient Greek and Roman works. Marinist invention often challenged classical expectations of decorum, balance, and restraint.
Conceit : An extended or striking metaphor that links apparently dissimilar things. Marinist poems build surprise through elaborate comparisons.
La Lira : A multivolume collection of Giambattista Marino’s lyric poetry, first published in 1602. Its poems make verbal surprise and sensuous imagery central to lyric form.
Italian Renaissance poetry : Italian poetry from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, especially the traditions shaped by Petrarch and classical models. Marino inherited Renaissance lyric conventions and refashioned them for Baroque effect.
Arcadianism : A literary movement that favored pastoral simplicity and classical restraint, especially in eighteenth-century Italy. Its later ideal of clarity and moderation opposed the extravagance associated with Marinism.
Metaphysical conceit : An intellectually elaborate metaphor that connects dissimilar subjects through sustained reasoning. It shares Marinism’s appetite for ingenuity but often emphasizes argument over sensual display.
La Galeria : Giambattista Marino’s collection of poems describing paintings and sculptures, published in 1620. It turns visual artworks into occasions for elaborate poetic description.
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