King Torrismondo (Hardcover, Dual language ed)

This translation of Torquato Tasso's Il re Torrismondo, the first to be made directly from the Italian into English, is intended to help those students and scholars who do not command the language of the original text. This translation provides readers with a wider range of the Italian tragedy as a genre; it also allows readers to acquire a deeper awareness of the entire spectrum of the Italian Renaissance in its final brilliance. Tasso's King Torrismondo provides an example of Neo-Aristotelian dramatic theory of the second half of the fifteenth century. It incorporates into the dramatic genre elements of the epic lyric poem. Tasso's language can also be studied as an example of "imitation" of Virgil, Dante, Petrarch, and Tasso's own epic. Finally, Tasso's Torrismondo affords us an opportunity of comparative analysis of French, English, and Spanish literature in the development of tragedy as a European genre.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Torquato Tasso
Translators:	Maria Pastore Passaro
Introduction by:	Anthony Oldcorn
Dimensions:	235 x 159 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	332
Edition:	Dual language ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-1633-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8232-1633-0
Barcode:	9780823216338

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