La poetica di Aristotele vulgarizzata

Lodovico Castelvetro's La poetica di Aristotele vulgarizzata (1570) was a significant, though sometimes inaccurate, interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics. Castelvetro championed the dramatic unities of time, place, and action, and argued that poetry's sole purpose is to provide pleasure. He also challenged the idea of divine poetic inspiration, asserting that poetry should be grounded in realism. This work influenced Renaissance and French Neoclassical drama by establishing critical norms for theater. Castelvetro's interpretations, while not always faithful to Aristotle's original ideas, were highly impactful in the history of dramatic criticism.1