Estetica e poetica in Giovan Battista Gelli

The new book series Classicism and Beyond / Il classicismo e oltre evolved on the basis of the funded research project "Anticlassicism in the Cinquecento" and is dedicated to the dynamic dialectic of poetological and aesthetic standardization efforts of the Italian Cinquecento and the counter- and alternative movements partly incorporated in, and partly excluded by, these efforts. The book series will bring together works that examine this dialectic of stabilization and destabilization of classicist norm structures in literature from the Italian Cinquecento to the European 18th century in systematic, general approaches as well as readings of individual texts. It will also focus on the diachronic aspects of these dynamics, whether they constitute or destabilize epochs, and continue to raise the question of the pertinence of epoch labels such as "Renaissance", "Classicism", "Mannerism", "Baroque" or "Seicentismo". Series editors Marc Föcking (Hamburg University) Susanne A. Friede (Bochum University) Florian Mehltretter (Munich University, LMU) Angela Oster (Munich University, LMU) The volumes of the series are peer-reviewed. Copyright cover image: Frans Huys, Groteske Maske, 1555, Kupferstich, Blatt 159x143 mm, Inventar-Nr.: FHuys WB 3.1b, (c) bpk Berlin / Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum