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The enemy in Italian renaissance epic : images of hostility from Dante to Tasso / Andrea Moudarres.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moudarres, Andrea, author.
- Series:
- Early modern exchange.
- The Early Modern Exchange
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epic poetry, Italian--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Italian.
- Renaissance--Italy.
- Renaissance.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 249 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : The University of Delaware Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities.
- Contents:
- Between fathers and sons: sowers of enmity in Inferno 28
- The enemy within the walls: treachery, pride, and civil strife in Pulci's Morgante
- The enemy as the self: madness and tyranny in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
- The geography of the enemy: Christian and Islamic empires from the fall of Constantinople to Tasso's Gerualemme Liberata.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-237) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-64453-002-3
- OCLC:
- 1091234857
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