Ariosto and Boiardo : the origins of Orlando furioso / Peter V. Marinelli
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1987. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425973
ISBN: 0826206360
Physical description; 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Comparative study of Boiardo's "Orlando innamorato" and Ariosto's "Orlando furioso". Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-244) and index. Contents; Orlando Innamorato: The palimpsest. "Furore" and "Dismisura" The Orlando-World of Immoderate Passion ; "Con atto umano" The world of Bradamante and Ruggiero. -- Orlando Furioso: The overwriting. Homage to the house a poem of love, history and society ; Neoplatonist art Ariosto, his contemporaries, and his friends ; THe vergilian expansion Trojan Aeneas, Trojan Ruggiero ; A clown's redemption herculean heroics and the triumphs of wit ; The laughter of Lucian Astolfo as Christian Menippus. Subjects; Ariosto, Lodovico 1474-1533. Orlando furioso ; Sources. Boiardo, Matteo Maria 1440 or 1441-1494 Influence.
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