Orlando in Love

Orlando in Love
Author: Matteo Maria Boiardo
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages: 726
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781932559019

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

Renaissance Transactions

Renaissance Transactions
Author: Valeria Finucci
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780822322955

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.

Genealogies of Fiction

Genealogies of Fiction
Author: Eleonora Stoppino
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 0823240371

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.

Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841 Vol 5

Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841 Vol 5
Author: Harriet Devine Jump
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040242480

The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.

Neo-Latin and the Vernaculars

Neo-Latin and the Vernaculars
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004386408

The early modern world was profoundly bilingual: alongside the emerging vernaculars, Latin continued to be pervasively used well into the 18th century. Authors were often active in and conversant with both vernacular and Latin discourses. The language they chose for their writings depended on various factors, be they social, cultural, or merely aesthetic, and had an impact on how and by whom these texts were received. Due to the increasing interest in Neo-Latin studies, early modern bilingualism has recently been attracting attention. This volumes provides a series of case studies focusing on key aspects of early modern bilingualism, such as language choice, translations/rewritings, and the interferences between vernacular and Neo-Latin discourses. Contributors are Giacomo Comiati, Ronny Kaiser, Teodoro Katinis, Francesco Lucioli, Giuseppe Marcellino, Marianne Pade, Maxim Rigaux, Florian Schaffenrath, Claudia Schindler, Federica Signoriello, Thomas Velle, Alexander Winkler.

Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book

Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book
Author: Marvin J. Heller
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 711
Release: 2021-08-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004441166

Articles on early Hebrew printing encompassing title-page motifs and entitling books; authors and places of publication including books opposed to gambling, on philology, and the massacres of tah-ve-tat (1648-48); small diverse places of printing; and on Christian-Hebraism.

Run to Earth

Run to Earth
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1869
Genre:
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Orlando Furioso (Orlando Enraged), Volume V

Orlando Furioso (Orlando Enraged), Volume V
Author: Ludovico Ariosto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2019-05-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9789353362515

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