From Chaos to Light. Creation and Re-creation in Michelangelo, Ronsard, and Shakespeare

The contribute aims at analyzing the relationships between the poetic act and the origin of the universe, focusing on some Renaissance and Late Renaissance works based on the Bible and Ovid’s Metamorphosis. In the Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings by Michelangelo, and in Shakespeare’s and Ronsard’s work, for example, the act of writing or painting – in its variety of forms, myths and patterns – often correspond to the act of re-creating the world. Accordingly, and basing on some theoretical premises, I intend to show how this relationship not only contributed to changing the aesthetic canon, for instance giving a pivotal role to the passion as a creative force, but also redefined the notion of literary creation with a new awareness in the path towards modernity.