Il poemetto «Le Raccolte» fra satira, proposte e polemiche

Published in Venice in 1751 to celebrate Andrea Giulio Cornaro’s wedding, the satirical short poem written in octaves «Le Raccolte» blamed the growing popularity of the poetry for occasions and the literary amateurism, and showed some limits regarding the contemporary publishing market. Bettinelli represented the dispute between the array of the mainstream authors and the confuse ranks of mediocre poets, led by Cacoete, who embodied the bad taste in poetry. In this way he criticized the poor and trivial poetry degraded to a useless job and his considerations would remerge in some later works.