The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto / / Jo Ann Cavallo.

• VerfasserIn: Cavallo, Jo Ann,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516). Comparing the narratological strategies used to depict non-European characters in these stories, Jo Ann Cavallo argues that Boiardo's cosmopolitan vision of humankind increasingly became replaced by Ariosto's crusading ideology, which emphasized a binary opposition between Christians and Saracens.Cavallo addresses the poems' mixing of imaginary sites and the geographical reality of a rapidly expanding globe, contextualizing them against current events and concerns, as well as ancient, medieval, and Renaissance texts influential at the time. As the prize committee for the Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies noted: "This articulate, engaging, and well-documented study represents an important work of scholarship in its cross-cultural considerations of Italian Renaissance epic poetry."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Asia -- Chapter One. Angelica of Cathay -- Chapter Two. Gradasso of Sericana -- Chapter Three. Agricane of Tartary -- Chapter Four. Mandricardo, Son of Agricane -- Chapter Five. Marphisa, Eastern Queen -- PART TWO. Out of Africa -- Chapter Six. Agramante of Biserta (Tunisia) -- Chapter Seven. Rugiero (Atlas Mountains, Northern Africa) -- Chapter Eight. Rodamonte of Sarza (Algeria) -- Chapter Nine. Saracen Spain -- PART THREE. The Middle East -- Chapter Ten. Boiardo's Noradino in Cyprus -- Chapter Eleven. Egypt: From Damietta to Cairo -- Chapter Twelve. Jerusalem -- Chapter Thirteen. Ariosto's Norandino in Damascus -- PART FOUR. Back to Africa -- Chapter Fourteen. From Ethiopia to the Moon -- Chapter Fifteen. The Destruction of Biserta -- PART FIVE. From Cosmopolitanism to Isolationism -- Chapter Sixteen. Boiardo's Brandimarte across the Continents -- Chapter Seventeen. Ariosto's Rinaldo along the Po River -- Conclusion -- Names and Origins of Fictional Characters -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index