The romance epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso : from public duty to private pleasure / Jo Ann Cavallo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavallo, Jo Ann, author.

Series:

Toronto Italian studies.

Toronto Italian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epic poetry, Italian--History and criticism.

Romances, Italian--History and criticism.

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

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

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, Jo Ann Cavallo attempts a new interpretation of the history of the renaissance romance epic in northern Italy, focusing on the period's three major chivalric poets. Cavallo challenges previous critical assumptions about the trajectory of the romance genre, especially regarding questions of creative imitation, allegory, ideology, and political engagement. In tracing the development of the romance epic against the historical context of the Ferrarese court and the Italian peninsula, Cavallo moves from a politically engaged Boiardo, whose poem promotes the tenets of humanism, to an individualistic Tasso, who opposed the repressive aspects of the counter-reformation culture he is often thought to represent. Ariosto is read from the vantage of his predecessor Boiardo, and Cavallo describes his cynicism and later mellowing attitude toward the real-world relevance of his and Boiardo's fiction. The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso is the first critical study to bring together the three poets in a coherent vision that maps changes while uncovering continuities.

Contents:

General introduction

pt. 1. An ethics of action

1. Introduction

2. Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato, book one (1482-3) : romance

3. Orlando Innamorato, book two (1482-3) : history

4. Orlando Innamorato, book three (1495) : epic

pt. 2. Creative information

5. Introduction

6. Cieco da Ferrara, Il Mambriano (1509)

7. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516) : didactic allegory

8. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516) : novellas of civic virtue

9. Ariosto, Cinque canti (composed c. 1519-21)

10. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1532)

pt. 3. The triumph of romance

11. Introduction

12. Trissino, L'Italia liberata da' Goti (1547-8)

13. Bernardo Tasso, L'Amadigi (1560)

14. Torquato Tasso, Il Rinaldo (1562)

15. Torquato Tasso, La Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-281-99240-2

9786611992408

1-4426-8224-8

OCLC:

1013963444