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 Orla…
"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 Orl…
"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 Orl…
Dai cicli medievali all'Ariosto. In questo libro, senza forzature ideologiche ed evitando la tentazione di confezionare quadri storici confortanti ma artificiosi, si tenta di dar conto del cospicuo e multiforme materiale letterario che nel corso di oltre tre secoli anonimi cante…
The Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy is the focus of this new collaborative history.
"This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner's 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. The Arthurian legend material reached all levels of society, from princely courts with their luxury books and f…