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The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto (Hardcover, New)
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The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto (Hardcover, New)
Series: Toronto Italian Studies
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This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of
eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the
most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato (1495) and
Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516). Comparing the
narratological strategies used to depict non-European characters in
these stories, Jo Ann Cavallo argues that Boiardo's cosmopolitan
vision of humankind increasingly became replaced by Ariosto's
crusading ideology, which emphasized a binary opposition between
Christians and Saracens. Cavallo addresses the poems' mixing of
imaginary sites and the geographical reality of a rapidly expanding
globe, contextualizing them against current events and concerns, as
well as ancient, medieval, and Renaissance texts influential at the
time. As the prize committee for the Scaglione Publication Award
for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies noted: "This
articulate, engaging, and well-documented study represents an
important work of scholarship in its cross-cultural considerations
of Italian Renaissance epic poetry."
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