Aminta

Japanese: 《アミンタ》 - あみんた

…In this environment, Tasso wrote Treatise on Poetics and the Heroic Epic (which was revised in his later years to become the great work De Heroic Epic), published a collection of lyric poems, and gave lectures at the Ferrara Academy, while also experiencing love affairs with various noblewomen. In 1572, he became a direct courtier of Alfonso II, and the following year he wrote the pastoral play Aminta. This work decisively established the form of the new literary genre, the pastoral, which was being formed in the second half of the 16th century by mixing elements of tragedy and comedy with the form of pastoral poetry that had been a tradition for over a decade, and this form also had a great influence on the blossoming of the genre of opera in the 17th century. …

From [Mannerism]

... The latter "the height of refinement" is the theory of J. Sherman and others who emphasized the aestheticism of G. Vasari, who preached the method (maniera), and said that Mannerists were artists and writers who remained in the court as courtiers by rank, had no connection to rebellion against classicism or avant-garde, had no desire to treat the mysterious, anxious, or neurotic, and were only interested in synthetic imitation of existing metaphors and allegories, and were devoted to creating refined artificial beauty from them. The first work that meets the standards of this theory is T. Tasso's Aminta (1573). The play is a pastoral (or bucolic) play that combines the ancient pastoral poetry with the tastes of the Ferrara court, in which the shepherd Aminta falls in love with the loveless woman Silvia, mistakenly believes her to be dead, and tries to throw himself off a cliff, but fails. He finally wins her heart and has a happy ending. It is a pastoral play that combines the ancient pastoral poetry with the tastes of the Ferrara court, but is characterized by its outstanding ideas, sensuality, and a certain aestheticism.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Aminta" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そういう環境のなかでタッソは《詩学および英雄叙事詩に関する論考》(晩年に推敲が重ねられて大著《英雄叙事詩論》となる)の執筆，叙情詩集の刊行，フェラーラ･アカデミアでの発表活動などを行い，他方でさまざまな貴婦人との恋愛を経験した。1572年，アルフォンソ2世直属の廷臣となり，翌73年には牧歌劇《アミンタ》を執筆。十数世紀の伝統を担う牧歌の形式に悲劇と喜劇の要素を混入しながら16世紀後半に形成されつつあった新しい文学ジャンル〈牧歌劇〉は，この作品によって決定的にその形態を確立し，さらにその形態は17世紀における〈オペラ〉のジャンルの開花にも多大な影響を与えた。…

【マニエリスム】より

…　後者の〈洗練の極致〉は，手法(マニエラmaniera)を説くG.バザーリの唯美主義を重視するJ.シャーマンらの理論であり，マニエリストは身分上廷臣として宮廷内にとどまり，古典主義への反逆や前衛主義には無縁な人士であり，怪奇や不安，神経症など薬にしたくもなく，ただ既成の隠喩や寓意の合成的模倣に終始し，そこから洗練された人工美を作り出すのに腐心した芸術家･文人の謂（いい）だとしている。この論の眼鏡にかなう作品はまずT.タッソの《アミンタ》(1573)である。牧人アミンタが情なき女シルビアに恋し，やがて女が死んだと錯覚して，断崖より身を投げるが未遂に終わり，ついに彼女の心を得てハッピー･エンドという古代の田園詩とフェラーラの宮廷の趣味とがほどよく統合された田園劇(牧歌劇)であるが，抜群の着想と官能性とある種の唯美主義がその特徴である。…

※「《アミンタ》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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