Author: Jo Ann Cavallo
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802089151
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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In The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, Jo Ann Cavallo attempts a new interpretation of the history of the renaissance romance epic in northern Italy, focusing on the period's three major chivalric poets. Cavallo challenges previous critical assumptions about the trajectory of the romance genre, especially regarding questions of creative imitation, allegory, ideology, and political engagement. In tracing the development of the romance epic against the historical context of the Ferrarese court and the Italian peninsula, Cavallo moves from a politically engaged Boiardo, whose poem promotes the tenets of humanism, to an individualistic Tasso, who opposed the repressive aspects of the counter-reformation culture he is often thought to represent. Ariosto is read from the vantage of his predecessor Boiardo, and Cavallo describes his cynicism and later mellowing attitude toward the real-world relevance of his and Boiardo's fiction. The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso is the first critical study to bring together the three poets in a coherent vision that maps changes while uncovering continuities.
Author: Leigh Hunt
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Category : Poets, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Author: Leigh Hunt
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Author: Leigh Hunt
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Author: Selene Scarsi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131700714X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Situating itself in a long tradition of studies of Anglo-Italian literary relations in the Renaissance, this book consists of an analysis of the representation of women in the extant Elizabethan translations of the three major Italian Renaissance epic poems (Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata), as well as of the influence of these works on Elizabethan Literature in general, in the form of creative imitation on the part of poets such as Edmund Spenser, Peter Beverley, William Shakespeare and Samuel Daniel, and of prose writers such as George Whetstone and George Gascoigne. The study emphasises the importance of European writers' influence on English Renaissance Literature and raises questions pertaining to the true essence of translation, adaptation and creative imitation, with a specific emphasis on gender issues. Its originality lies in its exhaustiveness, as well as in its focus on the epics' female figures, both as a source of major modifications and as an evident point of interest for the Italian works' 'translatorship'.
Author: Leigh Hunt
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Category : Italian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Author: Valeria Finucci
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822322955
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Edited collection discusses the first historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature, which focused on two 16th century works: ORLANDO FURIOSO and GERUSALEMME LIBERATA.
Author: Sergio Zatti
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802093736
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century.
Author: Leigh Hunt
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Category : Italian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Author: Michael Sherberg
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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