Classicismo e poesia di corte al tempo di Carlo di Borbone, in Celato G.-Chirico M.L., La poesia encomiastica latina per Carlo di Borbone

This paper has two main purposes: providing a general overview of the eulogistic production for Charles of Bourbon, highliting its literary genres and authors, the most frequently used topics, the models of reference and, furthermore, the public use of rethoric, the restoration of Classicism, and the influence of Vico and Gravina’s theories in eloquence. In the second part the study focuses on some carmina composed for Charles of Bourbon by Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi, the most distinguished Neapolitan intellectual of the first half of the XVIII century. The study analizes their content, the occasion on which they were composed, and their quotations of ancient authors. Mazzocchi constantly promoted Charles of Bourbon’s reforms. Nevertheless, this aspect of his production and his role as a poet laureate has never been adequately considered yet.