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Book Orlando in Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matteo Maria Boiardo
  • Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781932559019
  • Pages : 726 pages

Download or read book Orlando in Love written by Matteo Maria Boiardo and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit of "the fairest of her Sex, Angelica" (in Milton's terms) through a fairyland that combines the military valors of Charlemagne's knights and their famous horses with the enchantments of King Arthur's court. Today it seems more than ever appropriate to offer a new, unabridged edition of Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, the first Renaissance epic about the common customs of, and the conflicts between, Christian Europe and Islam. Having extensively revised his earlier translation for general readers, Charles Ross has added headings and helpful summaries to Boiardo's cantos. Tenses have been regularized, and terms of gender and religion have been updated, but not so much as to block the reader's encounter with how Boiardo once viewed the world. Charles Stanley Ross has degrees from Harvard College and the University of Chicago and teaches English and comparative literature at Purdue University. "Neglect of Italian romances robs us of a whole species of pleasure and narrows our very conception of literature. It is as if a man left out Homer, or Elizabethan drama, or the novel. For like these, the romantic epic of Italy is one of the great trophies of the European genius: a genuine kind, not to be replaced by any other, and illustrated by an extremely copious and brilliant production. It is one of the successes, the undisputed achievements." -C. S. Lewis

Book Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse  1591

Download or read book Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse 1591 written by Lodovico Ariosto and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Renaissance Transactions

Download or read book Renaissance Transactions written by Valeria Finucci and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Dor   s Illustrations for Ariosto s  Orlando Furioso

Download or read book Dor s Illustrations for Ariosto s Orlando Furioso written by Gustave Doré and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great 19th-century illustrator's last major achievement: 208 brooding, surreal illustrations of magnificent, influential Renaissance epic poem. Jousting knights, damsels in distress, and grotesque monsters come to life under Doré's exuberant pen style.

Book Structure and Ideology in Boiardo s Orlando Innamorato

Download or read book Structure and Ideology in Boiardo s Orlando Innamorato written by Andrea Di Tommaso and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- STRUCTURE AND IDEOLOGY IN BOIARDO'S ORLANDO INNAMORATO -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: THE POET AND HIS AUDIENCE -- CHAPTER TWO: INFLAMMATION OF THE HEART -- CHAPTER THREE: THE MEANING OF NOBILITY -- CHAPTER FOUR: TIME, SPACE AND ACTION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

Book Ariosto and the Arabs

Download or read book Ariosto and the Arabs written by Mario Casari and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most dynamic and influential literary texts of the European sixteenth century, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532) emerged from a world whose horizons were rapidly changing. The poem is a prism through which to examine various links in the chain of interactions that characterized the Mediterranean region from late antiquity through the medieval period into early modernity and beyond. Ariosto and the Arabs takes as its point of departure Jorge Luis Borges's celebrated short poem "Ariosto y los Arabes" (1960), wherein the Furioso acts as the hinge of a past and future literary culture circulating between Europe and the Middle East. The Muslim "Saracen"--protagonist of both historical conflict and cultural exchange--represents the essential "Other" in Ariosto's work, but Orlando Furioso also engages with the wider network of linguistic, political, and faith communities that defined the Mediterranean basin of its time. The sixteen contributions assembled here, produced by a diverse group of scholars who work on Europe, Africa, and Asia, encompass several intertwined areas of analysis--philology, religious and social history, cartography, material and figurative arts, and performance--to shed new light on the relational systems generated by and illustrative of Ariosto's great poem.

Book Genealogies of Fiction

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  • Author : Eleonora Stoppino
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0823240371
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Genealogies of Fiction written by Eleonora Stoppino and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogies of Fiction is a study of gender, dynastic politics, and intertextuality in medieval and renaissance chivalric epic, focused on Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso. Relying on the direct study of manuscripts and incunabula, this project challenges the fixed distinction between medieval and early modern texts and reclaims medieval popular epic as a key source for the Furioso. Tracing the formation of the character of the warrior woman, from the Amazon to Bradamante, the book analyzes the process of gender construction in early modern Italy. By reading the tension between the representations of women as fighters, lovers, and mothers, this study shows how the warrior woman is a symbolic center for the construction of legitimacy in the complex web of fears and expectations of the Northern Italian Renaissance court.

Book The Women of Weird Tales

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  • Author : Greye La Spina
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-03
  • ISBN : 9781948405768
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Women of Weird Tales written by Greye La Spina and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched in 1923, the pulp magazine Weird Tales quickly became one of the most important outlets for horror and fantasy fiction and is often associated with writers like H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert Bloch, all of whose work appeared in its pages. But often overlooked is the fact that much of Weird Tales' content was by women writers, some of whom numbered among the magazine's most popular contributors. This volume includes thirteen fantastic tales originally published between 1925 and 1949, written by four of Weird Tales' most prolific female contributors: Greye La Spina, Everil Worrell, Mary Elizabeth Counselman and Eli Colter. Ranging from science fiction to fantasy to horror, these classic tales of mad scientists, deadly curses, ghosts, vampires, and the risen dead remain as thrilling and sensational as when first published.

Book Women and the Making of Poetry in Ariosto s Orlando Furioso

Download or read book Women and the Making of Poetry in Ariosto s Orlando Furioso written by Ita Mac Carthy and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the representation of women in the Orlando furioso and the making of a poem that both curses and blesses them.

Book Morgante

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  • Author : Luigi Pulci
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2000-09-22
  • ISBN : 9780253214072
  • Pages : 1018 pages

Download or read book Morgante written by Luigi Pulci and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-22 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic picaresque epic detailing the thrilling exploits of Orlando, Morgante is a tale of war and of the calamities that befall the romantic hero, his fellow knights, and their sovereign, Charlemagne. After encountering the fierce Morgante, Orlando converts the giant, who then becomes his squire and trusted companion. This annotated English translation will lead to a new appreciation of Luigi Pulci's singular epic masterpiece and contribute to a reassessment of the author's influence on modern English literature.

Book Ariosto  the Orlando Furioso and English Culture

Download or read book Ariosto the Orlando Furioso and English Culture written by Jane E. Everson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the fifth centenary of the publication of the first edition of the Italian masterpiece, Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Culture, 1516-2016 brings together an international team of Renaissance scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to analyse in detail the diffuse impact which the epic poem had upon English culture from the Tudor century to the present day. Translated into English in the 1590s by Sir John Harington, godson of Elizabeth I, the influence of Ariosto's poem can be traced in literature, music and the visual arts, from Spenser and Milton to modern media adaptations. In addition, the collection reflects upon the ways in which successive editions and translations, examples of critical reception, rewritings and adaptations in different media (in particular opera) all shaped the rich and evolving understanding of the adventures of Orlando, Angelica, Medoro, Olympia, and Sacripante in the cultural and artistic production of England across the centuries.

Book Saracens and Their World in Boiardo and Ariosto

Download or read book Saracens and Their World in Boiardo and Ariosto written by Maria Pavlova and published by Italian Perspectives. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ubiquitous presence in European chivalric literature, the multifaceted figure of the Saracen Other plays a vital role in shaping the knightly values and ideologies underpinning some of the most influential narrative poems of the Italian Renaissance. By combining historical research and close reading and bringing to bear a wealth of literary and documentary sources, some of which have never before been published, this book analyses portrayals of Saracens and their world in Boiardo's Inamoramento de Orlando and Ariosto's Orlando furioso. Pavlova assesses for the first time the degree of realism in Boiardo's and Ariosto's representations of Islam and Islamic culture(s) and discusses the ideological implications of the two poets' innovative treatment of their Saracen characters. She locates these and other fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century chivalric works within the rich, vibrant history of interactions between Italian rulers and their Islamic counterparts as well as within the centuries-long literary tradition, going back to such archetypal texts as the Chanson de Roland and the Chanson d'Aspremont. Maria Pavlova is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick.

Book Sir Philip Sidney

Download or read book Sir Philip Sidney written by Philip Sidney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney's poetry and prose, including 'The Defence of Poesy', substantial parts of both versions of the 'Arcadia', and the whole of the sonnet sequence 'Astrophil and Stella'.

Book Ariosto

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2014-12-22
  • ISBN : 1473206979
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Ariosto written by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-12-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an alternate-world Italian Renaissance where the Italian states have formed a federation, the great epic poet Ludovico Ariosto is writing a fantasy adventure set in the New World that reflects the difficulties besetting his patron, Damiano de' Medici. While the Cerrochi in Ariosto's fantasy battle the evil wizard Anatrecacciatore with the help of a heroic version of Ariosto himself, politics and skullduggery plague the Florence-based court of Italia Federata, in which Ariosto becomes enmeshed when he chooses to support the Medicis against those seeking to fracture the Italian union.

Book Latin Poetry

Download or read book Latin Poetry written by Lodovico Ariosto and published by I Tatti Renaissance Library. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Latin Poetry, the erudite and playful works of one of Italy's greatest poets, Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), are translated into English for the first time. This I Tatti edition provides a newly collated Latin text and offers unique insight into the formation of one of the Renaissance's foremost vernacular writers.

Book The Satires of Ludovico Ariosto

Download or read book The Satires of Ludovico Ariosto written by Lodovico Ariosto and published by . This book was released on 1759 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Orlando Innamorato Di Bojardo  Orlando Furioso Di Ariosto

Download or read book Orlando Innamorato Di Bojardo Orlando Furioso Di Ariosto written by Matteo Maria Boiardo and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: