“L’ode del disinganno: intimismo e retorica nei versi di Ibn Qalāqis”, «Quaderni di Studi Arabi», Nuova Serie, thematic issue, Islamic Sicily: Philological and Literary Essays, M. Cassarino (ed.), 10 (2015), pp. 67-85

In 563 A.H. (1168/1169 C.E.) the Egyptian poet Ibn Qalāqis resided at Norman court; It was a historical period marked by growing internal tensions, at the time of transition from the regency of queen Margaret to the kingdom of William II. The present paper aims to analyze the main features of the poet’s style, beyond the documentary value of his Dīwān, by examining the rhetorical and semantics peculiarities of qaṣīda 78. The poem, composed in one of the most critical periods during his permanence in Sicily, reveals the extraordinary ability of Ibn Qalāqis to join the use of rhetorical devices and the ‘vividness’ expressed by the inner vision of a metaphorical world.