The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso : : From Public Duty to Private Pleasure / / Jo Ann Cavallo.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2004
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • General Introduction
  • Part I. An Ethics of Action
  • Chapter One. Introduction
  • Chapter Two. Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato, Book One (1482-3): Romance
  • Chapter Three. Orlando Innamorato, Book Two (1482-3): History
  • Chapter Four. Orlando Innamorato, Book Three (1495): Epic
  • Part II. Creative Imitation
  • Chapter Five. Introduction
  • Chapter Six. Cieco da Ferrara, Il Mambriano (1509)
  • Chapter Seven. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516): Didactic Allegory
  • Chapter Eight. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516): Novellas of Civic Virtue
  • Chapter Nine. Ariosto, Cinque canti (Composed c. 1519-21)
  • Chapter Ten. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1532)
  • Part III. The Triumph of Romance
  • Chapter Eleven. Introduction
  • Chapter Twelve. Trissino, L'ltalia liberata da' Goti (1547-8)
  • Chapter Thirteen. Bernardo Tasso, L'Amadigi (1560)
  • Chapter Fourteen. Torquato Tasso, Il Rinaldo (1562)
  • Chapter Fifteen. Torquato Tasso, La Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index