La forma dialogica in Roger de Piles: modelli, strutture, funzioni.

Roger de Piles (1638-1709) adopted the dialogical form both in Dialogue sur le coloris (1673) and in Conversations sur la connoissance de la Peinture et sur le jugement qu'on doit faire des tableaux (1677). The dialectical character of the genre, the choice of French and the disuse of the Latin language, the conscious recovery of historiographic models of the past, including Italian ones, the use of digressions, the semantic distinction between couleur et coloris, the weight offered to the reader/ viewer make Roger de Piles a master of "intellectual conversation". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]