L'approdo al segno ed il commiato della funzione l'analisi metamitologica di Cipangu nelle Alcine dell'Orlando Furioso [The landing at the sign and the farewell function: the metamitologica analysis Cipangu in Alcine 's Orlando Furioso]

Principiando by pioneering studies of Simone Fornari (1549), the critical debate about the eventuality that Alcina, both as island character, possesses in itself echoes the myth of poliano Cipangu is an issue that has attracted the critical interest in the player the Furious since the coming ages the exit of the third edition. Focusing on the analysis of literary and cartographic sources alternately the poem, research has investigated the formal similarities that the institution Ariosteo exhibition against dell'antecedente poliano. Evaluating the intellectual environment and private cultural relations which the poet had in his life, this article investigates the forms and functions assumed by the Venetian myth Cipangu in outlining the dialectic between formal employment in the songs of past myths and VI VII and analysis mythopoietic of the creative, and the interpreting will that first it is necessary to complement. The reading focuses particularly on dissociative strategy that Ariosto applies towards their sources, and the poem, highlighting how the immersion centrifugal movement balls signifier corresponds mirror the centripetal dissemination of its meanings.