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Cinque Canti / Five Cantos (Paperback): Ludovico Ariosto

Cinque Canti / Five Cantos (Paperback)

Ludovico Ariosto; Translated by Alexander Sheers, David Quint; Introduction by David Quint

Series: Biblioteca Italiana, 8

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This new translation brings to English-speaking readers an intense and brooding work by the greatest poet of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto. Begun as a sequel to his epic masterpiece "Orlando Furioso" (1516), the unfinished "Cinque Canti" are a powerful poem in their own right. Tragic in tone, they depict the disintegration of the chivalric world of Charlemagne and his knights and give poetic expression to a sense of cultural, political, and religious crisis felt in Ariosto's Italy and in early sixteenth-century Europe more generally. David Quint's introduction freshly examines the literary sources and models of the "Cinque Canti" and discusses the cultural contexts and historical occasions of the poem. Printed with facing Italian text, this volume allows the modern reader to experience a work of Renaissance literature whose savage beauty still has the power to chill and fascinate.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Biblioteca Italiana, 8
Release date: March 1996
First published: 1996
Authors: Ludovico Ariosto
Translators: Alexander Sheers • David Quint
Introduction by: David Quint
Dimensions: 203 x 133 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20009-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
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LSN: 0-520-20009-8
Barcode: 9780520200098

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