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Cinque Canti / Five Cantos (Paperback)
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Cinque Canti / Five Cantos (Paperback)
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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