Abstract
Evoking Petrarchan atmospheres as well as Tasso’s mannerist style, the 48 madrigals by Romano Alberti (c.1540-c.1600) - art essayist and member of the Accademia di San Luca - are organized around four themes, all of which are in perfect harmony with the occasional madrigal tradition that was so highly popular in the 16th century. They include works on love set in bucolic or mythological contexts; celebratory madrigals; exercises in translation from Latin (and possibly Greek) epigrams; and poetic divertissements intended as pure literary caprice. Preserved in Codex XIII d 54 at the Vittorio Emanuele III National Library of Naples, Alberti’s madrigals represent a key example of Baroque “piacevolezza”, in which phonics and rhythm take on a determining role.
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