L'Eremita, l'uomo del Galateo

The Hermit is the most autobiographical work of the Galateo, a sort of Menippean satire; it recalls in the prologue the Apokolokintosis of Seneca. The author-character aspires to a social condition adequate to his rank of doctor and humanist, characterized by a life devoted to integrity, but this condition is denied to him. Paradise, where he shows up in the fiction, is a metaphor of this condition. The author engages those who are hostile to him, hided under the masks of saints and prophets, in a clashing controversy. The clash reveals the inconvenient conditions in which the church of his time is, but does not assure him the right recognition. This is obtained through St. Thomas, a metaphor of absolute wisdom, which tells him that the controversy does not take him to Paradise and suggests him to pray to the Virgin. The dialogue ends with the "surrender" of the Hermit, who obtains Paradise but after having inflicted a harsh lesson on the church of climbers and corrupt people and made it understand the urgency of a reform.《隐士》是《加拉泰奥》（Galateo）中最具自传性的作品，属于梅尼普讽刺体（Menippean satire）；其开篇序章呼应了塞内卡的《阿波洛科金托西斯》（Apokolokintosis）。作为叙事者的作者本人渴望获得与其学者与人文主义者身份相称的社会境遇——此种境遇以恪守正直的人生为核心特质，但这份期许终究落空。作品虚构场景中他所抵达的天堂，正是这一理想境遇的隐喻。作者与那些以圣徒与先知为伪装的敌对者展开激烈论战，这场论战揭露了其所处时代教会的种种积弊窘境，却未能为他赢得应有的认可。这一认可最终经由绝对智慧的隐喻化身圣托马斯（St. Thomas）得以实现：圣托马斯告诫他，论战无法引领他抵达天堂，并劝他向圣母祈祷。这场对话以隐士的"surrender"收尾：隐士最终得以进入天堂，但在此之前，他已然对那些追名逐利、腐化堕落的教会群体施以严厉的惩戒，并令其认清改革的迫切性。