Virgile travesti

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Virgile travesti is a parody of the Aeneid written by Paul Scarron in 1648. It was inspired by Giovanni Battista Lalli's L'Eneide travestita (The Aeneid Disguised, 1633). [1] It is an early example of French burlesque literature. [2] Produced in eight volumes, the last book in the work was not published until 1659. [3]

The title gave rise to the English term for the literary genre of travesty. [4] [5]

References

  1. ↑ Morillot, Paul (1888). Scarron: étude biographique et littéraire. Paris: Lecène et Oudin. pp. 191–193.
  2. ↑ "Le Virgile travesti". lister.history.ox.ac.uk.
  3. ↑ Yale French studies. Yale French Studies. 1967. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  4. ↑ travesty, Britannica
  5. ↑ Terry, Richard G. (2005). Mock-heroic from Butler to Cowper: An English Genre and Discourse. Ashgate. ISBN   9780754606239.


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