1. Concept and origins
With the elegy and the hymn, the ode was one of the most important early modern lyric genres based on ancient models (Antiquity, reception of 4.6.). It was usually written in an elevated tone, with a particular claim of artistry. Two main literary forms are distinguished: (1) the Horatian ode modeled on the works of the Roman poet Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus, who himself drew on the Greek examples of Alcaeus, Asclep…