The whip of writers

The literary whip was a paper of literary criticism, built and wrote by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti(1719-1789), and this paper was very famous for tones very strong and offensive; in fact author wrote judgement very offensive against books and Italian writers; he despises contemporary poetry of a society called Arcadia, for ancient Greek land, and we can consider that verses of poems of these poetry are very poor, and he considered them poetaster, and we can’t consider that he was right. But often emerge also personal motive, so some attack to poetry and playwright as Carlo Goldoni, a prolific Italian playwright of 18^th century, that wrote 200 comedies, and he has had also praise of Voltaire, that wrote a letter to Goldoni and he called himself as more great admirer in France; but very and very rightly Baretti asked how it is possible to admire a Italian comedy if the admirer not knows Italian language; anyway Baretti criticizes characters of some comedy, but he takes alone some inaccuracy, and stop, he sees alone errors, Goldoni is sometime is boring, very boring, but these critic motives are very poor, because he take alone some image and not all comedy. I think that he wanted alone fame and success that he tried to obtain with these strong judges, and he was also, I repeat, also offensive, but some verse of his poem, was as much poor and boring. Somebody would comment that is necessary to see first owner qualities and after to consider other, then Christ talked: “Why you see the straw in eyes of your brother and not see beam in your eyes?”. Therefore Baretti is boring when he is polemic, this is always, because he critics all and everybody but after he does not give nothing that merits very praise. Baretti is a critic, offensive, polemic and may useless.

Alessandro Lusana