Translating women in early modern England : gender in the Elizabethan versions of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso / Selene Scarsi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scarsi, Selene.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tasso, Bernardo, 1493-1569.

Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 1440 or 1441-1494.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Women in literature.

English literature--Italian influences.

Italian literature--Translations into English--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Translating and interpreting--England--History--16th century.

Translating and interpreting.

Criticism and interpretation.

Italian literature--Translations into English.

England.

History.

Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 1440 or 1441-1494--Criticism and interpretation.

Boiardo, Matteo Maria.

Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533--Criticism and interpretation.

Ariosto, Lodovico.

Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533.

Tasso, Bernardo, 1493-1569--Criticism and interpretation.

Tasso, Bernardo.

Physical Description:

x, 207 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]

Contents:

Ariosto's female knights

Ariosto's other female characters

Addresses to and general comments on women

Tasso's female characters

Tofte's Boiardo: Orlando Inamorato

Tofte's Ariosto: Two tales

Spenser's Ariosto

Epilogue: Variations on the same theme. Ariosto's Cantos IV to VI.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754666202

0754666204

OCLC:

519827551