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jimintomystery · 5 years ago

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TNG: “Unification II”

Captain Picard and Lt. Commander Data learn that Ambassador Spock came to Romulus to guage the potential for a Vulcan-Romulan reunification. Meanwhile, the Enterprise pursues its leads on the materiel stolen from Qualor II. When Spock deduces a connection between these matters, he uncovers a Romulan plot. Commander Sela captures Spock, Picard, and Data before stepping up the timetable for a Romulan invasion of Vulcan.

Since the Cold War greatly influenced Star Trek’s approach to depicting the Federation’s relationship with rival powers, the end of the Cold War had a massive impact on the franchise’s 25th anniversary events. Star Trek VI depicted the Klingons being unable to afford continued hostilities with the Federation, forcing old soldiers to confront the sudden end of a seemingly eternal conflict that had defined their lives. This episode, on the other hand, alludes to uprisings in Eastern Europe in 1989, and the reunification of NATO’s West Germany and the Warsaw Pact’s East Germany a year later.

The German reunification metaphor is a bit shaky, though, since Vulcan is a founding member of the Federation and Romulus is the seat of power for its own empire. Spock doesn’t address whether the policy he’s pursuing would have Vulcan exit the Federation to cogovern the Romulan Star Empire, or if Romulus would abandon its imperial possessions to become a Federation member. For all I know we’re supposed to think Vulcan-Romulan reunification is effectively synonymous with the a union between the whole Federation and the entire Romulan state. The questions of sovereignty make this far more complicated than, for example, a bilateral non-aggression treaty, which makes it pretty illogical for Spock to seriously believe Proconsul Neral would greenlight it this afternoon.

Since I previously mentioned my confusion about the “missing Vulcan ship” angle, let’s go over how it fits into the Romulans’ plan. The Romulans want to send 2,000 troops to Vulcan, posing as a peace envoy. To that end they try to convince Spock to endorse a peace initiative, and they need to steal three Vulcan transport ships. One of those ships, the T’Pau, is procured from the smuggling ring at Qualor II. But the Romulans don’t get the T’Pau’s navigational deflector, which was apparently fenced off to a completely different party, and went down with a Ferengi cargo ship. I find it odd that the Romulans would leave that loose end for Starfleet to find, especially since the T’Pau is pretty useless without a deflector.

For that matter, I find it strange that the Romulans expect to send three Vulcan ships across the Neutral Zone without raising a lot of red flags. The Vulcans may not know what Spock is up to, but they sure know they didn’t give him three ships to do it. Even if Spock pulled some “cowboy diplomacy” and “borrowed” the ships, he’d have no motive to make them unidentifiable upon their return. So a lot of this plan really hinges on Sela’s remark that she just needs to keep everybody confused until the invasion force lands on Vulcan. In effect, the excuse for every plot hole here is that the Romulans are very, very sloppy. Then again, that would also account for how quickly Spock and Data hack their intelligence network and effortlessly pwn them at every turn.

This episode is the final appearance of Spock until the 2009 film Star Trek, in which he disappears into the alternate timeline of that movie and its sequels. (His death is reported in 2016’s Star Trek Beyond.) His last official act in this timeline, then, was a 2387 attempt to prevent the Romulan sun from exploding. I always liked that detail, because it played into his dedication to the Romulans as established here. And now, thanks to Star Trek: Picard, we know Spock wasn’t the only good dude from this episode looking out for the Romulans in that crisis, which also seems fitting.

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aion-rsa · 3 years ago

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Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 Episode 3 Easter Eggs & References

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 3.

The third episode of Lower Decks Season 2 has, in its title, an Easter egg to the TNG episode “We’ll Always Have Paris.” It is not anyone’s favorite episode of The Next Generation, but it’s possible that “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris,” will be your favorite episode of Lower Decks. Well, that depends on how much you love Star Trek: Voyager and not having complicated questions answered, ever.

Genesis devices to Delta Quadrant madness, different kinds of Orions, and several Worf shout-outs, here’s every Easter egg and reference we caught in Lower Decks Season 2, Episode 3.

Boimler can’t use the replicator

Mariner mentions that the upgraded security on the Cerritos means is responsible for Boimler being locked out of the replicators. This vaguely references the DS9 episode “Inquisition” and the Voyager episode “Counterpoint,” when it’s made clear people who are confined to quarters (i.e. security risks) can’t use the replicator.

We doing sci-fi stuff today?

This is Mariner’s second use of the term “sci-fi” in Season 2 of Lower Decks. The terms “science fiction” and “sci-fi” are used sparingly in the Trek franchise. In Picard Season 1, Jean-Luc admitted that he “didn’t get” science fiction, after Jurati was looking at this copy of Isaac Asimov’s The Complete Robot. Interestingly enough, the term “sci-fi” was still in its infancy in the 1960s, and was often thought of as a pejorative term by more serious science fiction enthusiasts who preferred the term “SF.” To this day, “SF” tends to denote print science fiction (or speculative fiction) while sci-fi usually refers to filmed science fiction. “Sci-fi” itself is almost a double portmanteau insofar as it’s both an abbreviation of “science fiction” and reference to “hi-fi,” meaning “high fidelity.” Mariner’s use of “sci-fi” in Lower Decks could suggest the word has a slightly different implied meaning in the 24th century than it does in the 20th or 21st.

The return of Shaxs and all the ways you can come back to life in Star Trek

The biggest running joke of this episode is easily the notion that Shaxs has come back to life and there is little to no explanation as to how. However, Mariner and Boimler do list several in a later scene, including:

“A transporter buffer thing” (Scotty in TNG’s “Relics”)

“A restored Katra” (Spock in The Search for Spock, but also Surak in “The Forge,” from Enterprise)

“A Mirror Universe switcharoo” (Jennifer in DS9’s “Through the Looking Glass,” and perhaps, more prominently, Georgiou in Discovery, starting with “The Wolf Inside.”)

“The Borg rebuilt him” (Neelix is saved by Seven’s nanoprobes in VOY’s “Mortal Coil.”)

Future son from an alternate timeline (Jake saves his father, Ben Sisko, in DS9’s “The Visitor.”)

“Maybe he got Genesis deviced” (Spock in The Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, et al.)

“Nexus/time ribbon — same thing” (Kirk, Picard, Soren and Guinan in Star Trek: Generations.)

“The Creator of Fair Haven and Captain Proton himself!”

Boimler mentions two holodeck programs written by Tom Paris, which were huge during the run of VOY. (Yeah, we’re calling it that now, it really does save time.) “Fair Haven,” was designated holoprogram “Paris042,” and appeared in the episodes “Fair Haven,” and “Spirit Folk.” The pulpy, black-and-white holoprogram appears in ten episodes of VOY, and is essentially a blend of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.

“Is he still a salamander?”

Boimler makes it clear that Tom Paris was only briefly turned into a salamander-like creature, because he was the first “first human to break the transwarp barrier.” This referenced the VOY episode “Threshold,” in which Janeway AND Paris become “salamanders.” It is generally considered to be the worst VOY episode of all time, and often, one of the worst Star Trek’s ever, too. But, true fans love it because of that fact. Also, this is the second time Lower Decks has referenced “Threshold.” In “Much Ado About Boimler,” Tendi and Boimler met one of those salamander-looking creatures on route to “the Farm.”

Qualor II

This references the exact same location from the TNG episodes “Unification I” and “Unification II.” It’s basically a big junk yard.

“This stuff always happens, even on VOY!”

This probably references the fact that Harry Kim was killed and replaced by his exact duplicate from another dimension in the VOY episode “Deadlock.”

Boimler sings the Voyager theme song

While walking down the corridor, Boimler is humming the Jerry Goldsmith-composed theme to Star Trek: Voyager. Previously, in Season 1, Boimler was humming the TNG theme in the episode “Temporal Eddict.” (Which is also composed by Jerry Goldsmith.)

Quark’s Bar

It appears by the time of Lower Decks Season 2 (roughly 2381) Quark seems to have a franchise of bars. On Qualor, we see a sign for “Quark’s Bar,” which seems to reference both Quark on DS9, but also the Quark’s Bar we saw on Freecloud in Picard’s “Stardust City Rag.”

Zebulon Sisters

In the same scene, we see a sign for the “Zebulon Sisters,” who are a musical group Boimler and Mariner went nuts for in the Lower Decks Season 1 episode, “Terminal Provocations.”

Like a Vulcan on Pon Farr

Tendi explains the Catian’s need to be “intimate once a year,” and compares it a “like a Vulcan on Pon Farr,” which of course, references the seven-year mating cycle for Vulcans, which originates in the TOS episode “Amok Time.”

Worf’s Mek’leth

Mariner says she once “ran over Worf’s Mek’leth” on Deep Space 9. This was the curved weapon Worf started using in DS9’s “The Way of the Warrior,” and prominently in First Contact.

Mariner’s long list of Starfleet postings

When Tendi asks Mariner what she was doing on DS9, she says, “I served there! Back before I was on the Quito.” This would put Mariner serving on DS9 sometime after 2372 (Worf arrives on DS9 in “The Way of the Warrior”), but before 2375 (Worf leaves DS9 in “What You Leave Behind.”) Either way, it’s between nine and six years before Lower Decks Season 2. Mariner also says that the Cerritos is “like my fifth” ship. This means that the dating of Mariner’s flashback scene on DS9 in the episode “Cupid’s Errant Arrow,” is even more confusing.

Bonestell and Starbase Earhart

Mariner knows a “fixer” at Bonestell, and when they arrive, we’re told this is “Starbase Earhart.” All of this references the TNG episode “Tapestry,” in which we learned a young Jean-Luc Picard hung out on this planet before “shipping out.” Bonetell is the bar and recreation area of Starbase Earhart. Tendi and Mariner playing dom-jot with the Nausicaans also references “Tapestry.”

“I’m not even that kind of Orion”

When Mariner suggests that Tendi use her pheromones, Tendi objects, saying “I’m not even that kind of Orion.” This references (mostly) the Enterprise episode “Bound,” in which we learn that the Orion “slave women,” are actually not slaves, but secretly manipulating all the males in their society through pheromones. The famous Orion pheromones originate in the TOS pilot episode “The Cage.” Tendi later mentions the “stigmas” around Orions, and that it was “hard to get into the academy.” Taken with the “not that kind of Orion ” reference, this could also reference the film Star Trek 2009, in which Uhura is roommates with an Orion, Gaila (Rachel Nichols) you didn’t appear to that kind of Orion, either.

“Not that kind of Orion,” may also reference the Animated Series episode “The Pirates of Orion,” in which everyone randomly pronounces it “ORE-E-AYN” (rather than “OH-RYE-AN”) for no clear reason.

Tom Paris

Robert Duncan McNeill reprises his role as Tom Paris, for the first time since the final episode of VOY, “Endgame.” Paris is rocking a post-First Contact style uniform, which is also something new, since the VOY crew were stuck in the old duds while in the Delta Quadrant.

The multiverse of Shaxs!

In Rutherford’s nightmare, there are a multitude of Shaxses, from across the multiverse of imagination. This scene is so densely packed with Easter eggs, it’s possible to miss several. Here’s what we caught.

Mirror Universe Shaxs says “I fought my way out of the multiverse.” He’s wearing the gold Terran Empire vest Kirk wore in TOS’ “Mirror, Mirror.”

Borg Shaxs

Tiny Dyson’s Sphere Shaxs (another reference to TNG’s “Relics.”)

Shaxs as Lincoln (another reference to TOS’ “The Savage Curtain,” which was just referenced last week!)

Shaxs in a TOS red uniform

Shaxs in an Enterprise–era engineering uniform. (Possibly a reference to Trip’s death in the ENT finale, “These Are the Voyages…”

Shaxs as Neelix? Is that what that spotted suit is, right?

“What was the deal with T’Pol’s hair —” (A half-heard line from Shaxs, clearly a reference to T’Pol’s shifting Vulcan haircut on Enterprise.)

“In the Nexus it’s ALWAYS Christmas” (Another reference to the time-bending energy ribbon, the Nexus in Generations. This references Picard’s weird fake-Christmas in the Nexus.)

“Tendi with no last name, like Odo!”

Mariner has no idea Tendi’s first name is “D’Vana,” and assumes she has just one name “like Odo,” in reference to everyone’s favorite shapeshifting constable from DS9, Odo. Tendi says her first name in the very first episode of Lower Decks, “Second Contact,” and we see her name signed on the screen in Mariner’s holodeck program in “Crisis Point.” But, it’s possible, it’s never been spoken out loud in a scene that Mariner has been in. This joke could reference the idea that Sulu and Uhura both did not have first names spoken on screen until much later in canon. In fact, in Star Trek 2009, it’s a running joke that Kirk does not know Uhura’s first name until Spock calls her Nyota.

Boimler references Scotty?

While crawling through the Jefferies Tubes, Boimler says “Nobody knows the Cerritos like Bradward Boimler!” And then he gets smacked in the head by a closing hatch. This probably references Scotty in The Final Frontier, when he says “I know this ship like the back of my hand,” and then runs into a bulkhead and passes out.

“Baby Bear”

Shaxs refers to Rutherford as “Baby Bear.” This references the Season 1 episode “Envoys,” in which Rutherford had briefly considered a job in security. At that point, all the security officers called themselves, “bears” and Rutherford “Baby Bear.” When Shaxs saved Rutherford in “No Small Parts,” he bellowed, “I’ve got you Baby Bear!”

A Kazon!

The Kazon were the primary villains in VOY’s first few seasons, and yes, did kind of look like that. Nobody misses them.

Computer, Ramming Speed!

When Mariner puts the shuttle on a collision course with the Cerritos, she says “ramming speed!” This feels like a reference to Worf in First Contact. Hell, maybe Mariner was on the Defiant in First Contact? It’s possible! (If she served on DS9, she could have EASILY served on the Defiant)

Did you get your bowl signed by Chakotay or whatever

Mariner teases Boimler at the end of the episode, intentionally pretending like she doesn’t know the difference between Chakotay and Tom Paris. Interestingly enough, both Tom Paris and Chakotay had criminal records before getting stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Seems like they’re doing fine upon the return of VOY to the Alpha Quadrant.

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And, if this episode is any indication, it feels like the references to VOY are just getting started on this show. Lower Decks Season 2 airs new episodes on Thursdays on Paramount +.

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Angelo Gorgoni (1639-1684) di Galatina e una stroncatura forse immeritata (1/2)

di Armando Polito

Dopo aver passato in rassegna i componimenti dedicati, a parte il primo, agli animali, in cui i riferimenti al mito trovavano diffuso albergo secondo il metaforico gusto dell’epoca, passo a quelli in cui il Gorgoni si misura con problemi esistenziali o fenomeni con cui l’umanità è destinata a confrontarsi fino, probabilmente, alla sua estinzione.

(pag. 81)

La Morte

Senza penne son vento; à scherno hò l’ali,

e ‘l tutto in brieve punto lascio ucciso.

Le Bare elette ad egria funerali.

per carri eleggo dove trionfo à riso.

Pioggie di sangue, e grandini di strali

ovunque giungo, ovunque approdo avisob;

e degli spirti altrui spoglie fatali

empio l’Inferno, e colmo il Paradiso.

Mi porge il Tempo tributaria usura;

già potendo fermar l’Orbe retondo

come estinto l’inceptoc in sepoltura.

Ogni cosa creata in Lethed affondo;

sotto i miei colpi ha da spirar Natura,

Iddio produsse, ed io rovino il mondo.

________

a tristi

b annuncio

c ciò che si è iniziato

d Fiume dell’oblio nella mitologia greca e romana; da λανθάνω (leggi lanthano)=nascondere.

(p. 82)

La Politica

Se’ tutto il Mondo à gli miei gesti intento,

sovra tutti i Monarchi impero a pieno.

Chi de’ Statuti miei s’avanta alienoa

voli tra Selve à pasturar l’Armento.

Scovro grandezze, che non regna argento,

con astutie à gli Regni io reggo il freno.

Fingo, che sorda sono, ò cieca almeno,

s’à punire non vaglia un tradimento.

Più nelle Reggie, che ad altrove hò loco.

Dall’apparenze mie nasce il livore;

quando è tempo di pianto, io mostro il gioco.

É delle leggi mie queste il tenore:

d’ogni perdita vasta io narro il poco,

de’ trionfi minuti, il più maggiore.

_________

a Chi si vanta di essere estraneo alle mie direttive

(p. 98)

Per l’uso delle perucche, frequentato dal vano secolo

Da mentitea à Natura un lusso vano,

che l’huomo accusa effiminato, e molle.

Ebro sì secolo rio, pregiasi invano,

mentre ciocche insensate Aurab l’estollec.

Braccio, che non di spada arma la mano,

almad,che non guerreri ordigni volle:

per lascivetto crin, pensiero insano,

l’accende i fasti, e vanità già bolle.

Censurata livrea, vile ornamento,

hor i petti virili abbaglia a torto,

tesor, ch’odia fortuna, e furae il vento.

Ecco, chi non dirà con senso accorto,

che l’huomo forte, divenuto lento,

oggi per Nume adori il crin d’un morto?

__________

a cose finte

b il vento

c solleva

d anima

e ruba

(p. 131)

Forza dell’eloquenza

Tutto può, tutto fà, lingua loquace,

qualor con salia à lusingarti viene,

pretenda Ulisse, e benche erede è Aiace,

perche l’armi d’Achille, e Ulisse ottiene.b

Vinca Reina, in libertade, in pace

senza leggi tiranne, e senza pene:

e ‘l gran Periclec, nell’orar fugaced,

libera, indusse in servitude, Atene.

Eloquente spergiuro Acheo Sinone,

seppe sì dir, che la Troiana plebe

chiuse il greco destriero entro Ilione.e

Folef son poi, che le marmoree Glebe

con la lira tirò g, mentre Anfione

con l’eloquenza fè le mura a Tebeh.

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a arguzie

b Allusione alla contesa tra Aiace ed Ulisse per l’attribuzione delle armi di Achille, con il tragico epilogo celebrato da Sofocle nell’omonima tragedia. Dopo che Ulisse viene giudicato più degno di lui di prenderle in consegna, Aiace medita la vendetta ma la dea Atena gli toglie il senno, per cui egli compie azioni indegne di un guerriero. Ritornato in sé, per la vergogna si uccide.

c Politico, oratore e militare ateniese del V secolo a. C; la sua azione politica non ha mai trovato valutazione concorde tra gli studiosi, considerandolo alcuni un liberale, altri un semplice populista. Già lo storico Tucidide (V-IV secolo a. c.), che pure era un suo ammiratore, in Storie, II, 65 così si espresse: Ἐγίγνετότε λόγῳ μὲν δημοκρατία, ἔργῳ δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ πρώτου ανδρὸς ἀρχή (Era a parole una democrazia, nei fatti il potere era sotto il primo uomo). Il Gorgone sembra aderire a questo giudizio.

d veloce, abile nell’arte oratoria

e Sinone si lasciò appositamente catturare dai Troiani e riuscì a convincerli ad introdurre dentro le mura di Troia (Ilio>Ilione) il famoso cavallo di legno.

f favole, qui, però, non in senso dispregiativo ma in quello di racconti mitici.

g Orfeo con la sua cetra faceva muovere alberi e pietre (marmoree glebe), fermava i fiumi e ammansiva le belve.

h Anfione per la costruzione delle mura di Tebe utilizzò le pietre del Citerone spostandole con il suono della lira donatagli da Ermes.

Il prossimo sonetto che leggeremo è un’insolita, per quei tempi, dichiarazione d’indipendenza. Malizia mi suggerisce di chiedermi quale sarebbe stata la dedica, vista quella che suo fratello indirizzò, quattro anni dopo la sua morte, a Francesco Maria Spinola (1659-1727), che tra i tanti titoli, riportati nel frontespizio, deteneva anche quello di duca di S. Pietro in Galatina. Scrive, fra l’altro, Giovanni Camillo trattarsi di un attestato di antica e cordiale osservanza, il che fa pensare ad un rapporto datato, cosa confermata quasi in conclusione, dove si legge: Felicissima dunque s’appelli S. Pietro Galatina mia Patria, di cui è meritevolissimo Duca. Per esserle toccato in sorte di havere sì Nobile, Valoroso, Virtuoso, e Benigno Padrone. E d’ogni invidia degna si stimi la mia casa, con occhio cortese sempre da sì sublimi Padroni, e rimirata, e protetta. Le raccordo per fine, e protesto, che nella Schiacchiera, glorioso Stemma del suo gran Casato, ove si mira, et ammira l’apparato di tanti varii Personaggi, saranno sempre i Gorgoni le pedine, e pedoni a piedi suoi posti, e prostrati. Sicurissimi di mai assaggiare Schiacco matto di sinistra Fortuna.

Nell’immagine che segue lo stemma della famiglia Spinola1 (d’oro, alla fascia scaccata di tre file d’argento e di rosso, sostenente una spina di botte di rosso, posta in palo) sul portale principale del palazzo ducale a Galatina, a riprova che quanto ad invenzione metaforica Giovanni Camillo non era da meno di Angelo.

foto di Alessandro Romano

Tenendo conto anche di quello intitolato La Politica, che abbiamo letto prima, mi chiedo se in fase di pubblicazione Angelo li avrebbe eliminati entrambi dalla raccolta autocensurandosi o li avrebbe mantenuti, a costo di urtare la suscettibilità dell’eventuale, quasi inevitabile per il costume dell’epoca, dedicatario.

(p. 179)

Non hà genioa di servire in corte

Nacqui à me stesso, e così far non voglio

me stesso d’altri, e suggettar mia sorte;

qualor bersaglio mi propongo à morte,

punto da i dardi suoi, vòb che mi doglio.

Essere ad onde di capriccio un scoglioc,

troppo duro è per me, troppo m’è forte.

Ha stravaganti idolatrie la Corte,

giacche al pari del Rè s’adora il sogliod .

Ivi potenza è podagrosa all’attoe,

prima, ch’un’alma poco onore avanze,

i crini d’oro inargentati ha fattof.

Han, politici i Rè, barbare usanze;

serbano i Corteggiani in sù l’estrattog,

ond’hanno metafisiche speranze.

______

a voglia

b voglio

c Il potere è paragonato al capriccioso movimento delle onde.

d Il trono, simbolo del potere.

e lenta a muoversi, come chi è affetto da podagra

f prima che un’anima consegua un po’ di onore, ha reso i capelli color argento da biondi che erano (l’interessato è diventato vecchio)

g mantengono il favore dei cortigiani con promesse astratte

(p. 180)

Abbondanza di poeti

Mancano gl’Alessandri, e i Cherilia

in maggior copia in ogni parte io trova

de’ metri armoniosi al Mondo novo,

più, che frutto gl’Autunni han fior gli Aprili.b

Dell’acque Pegaseec sorsi sottili

non si bevon lassù, per quel che provo.

Nascono Cigni d’ogni specie d’ovod,

a cui, fonti fatali, or sono i Nilie.

Le lire degli Orfeif, mille Neantih

trattan con man superba; e ‘l canto foscoi

par, ch’à sdegno attizzasse anco i latrantil.

Più si canta, che parla. E sì conoscom,

che Parnaso incapace à Cigni tantin,

vanno i Poeti, come i branchi al boscoo.

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a Mancano i grandi condottieri ed i poeti epici; per i primi viene citato Alessandro Magno (IV secolo a. C:, per i secondi Cherilo di Samo, poeta epico del V-IV secolo a. C.

b in misura più appariscente dovunque io trovi al mondo poesie armoniose: come i fiori in primavera sbocciano ma non maturano mai in frutto. Probabilmente al Lezzi è sfuggito lo stile contorto di questi versi, altrimenti il suo giudizio sarebbe stato, se possibile, ancora più severo.

c Pegaso era un cavallo alato che per ordine di Posidone arrestò la crescita del monte Elicona verso il cielo, dovuta al piacere datogli dal canto delle Pieridi in gara con le Muse, con colpo di zoccolo che fece sgorgare la fonte Ippocrene.

d nascono poeti destinati geneticamente a non esserlo

e per le quali fonti d’ispirazione non sono quelle della poesia antica (tra cui la fonte Ippocrene appena citata) ma fiumi senza mitiche implicazioni poetiche, come il Nilo

f Vedi la nota g a p. 17.

h Neante di Cizico, storico greco del III secolo a. C., viene qui assunto come modello di chi dovrebbe dedicarsi solo a ciò per cui ha provato talento (il che, però, non esclude che uno storico possa essere, magari solo potenzialmente, un poeta e che un poeta non sia negato, quasi geneticamente, per la storia).

i oscuro

l i cani

m vedo

n essendo il Parnaso (monte della Grecia centrale nell’antichità sacro ad Apollo e Dioniso, nonché sede delle Muse e, dunque, simbiolo della poesia)atto ad ospitare tanti (sedicenti) poeti

o vagano nel bosco come gli animali in branco

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1 La famiglia Spinola, di origini genovesi, vantò ben undici dogi dal 1531 al 1773 e ben quindici cardinali dal XVI al XIX secolo.

Per la prima parte: http://www.fondazioneterradotranto.it/2019/11/27/angelo-gorgoni-1639-1684-di-galatina-e-una-stroncatura-forse-immeritata-1-2/

#Angelo Gorgoni #Armando Polito #duca di Galatina #Francesco Maria Spinola #Galatina #stemma Spinola #Libri Di Puglia #Spigolature Salentine

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