Osservazioni letterarie

…as was Maffei’s later periodical, Osservazioni letterarie (1737–40). Maffei’s verse tragedy Merope (performed and published 1713; modern ed., 1911) met with astonishing success and, because it was based on Greek mythology and the drama of Euripides and the French Neoclassical period, pointed the way for the later reform of Italian…