Il cronotopo nell'Apokopos di Bergadìs

Bergadìs’ Apokopos (XV cent.) belongs to the narrative genre of descensus ad inferos and otherworldly visions of medieval culture with illustrious antecedents in Greek, latin as well as in vernacular literature. This popular poem describes a narrator’s catabasis which has been performed throughout a dream. in its internal composition a basic eclecticism is perceived, as the author moves between the canvas and the heroic poems of chivalry and the novelistic literature both from East and West, as well as he does not neglect a likely inspiration from the visual arts. The very time of the related events is not well clarified. The author uses the dream dimension to justify the choice of a theme such as catabasis, in order to show the message of vanitas vanitatum, as a result of sudden upheavals of Fortune.