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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Orlando Innamorato
Matteo Maria Boiardo, Francesco Berni
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R942
Discovery Miles 9 420
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Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered,
Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained
the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian
Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts
Orlando's love-stricken pursuit of "the fairest of her Sex,
Angelica" (in Milton's terms) through a fairyland that combines the
military valors of Charlemagne's knights and their famous horses
with the enchantments of King Arthur's court. Today it seems more
than ever appropriate to offer a new, unabridged edition of
Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, the first Renaissance epic about the
common customs of, and the conflicts between, Christian Europe and
Islam. Having extensively revised his earlier translation for
general readers, Charles Ross has added headings and helpful
summaries to Boiardo's cantos. Tenses have been regularized, and
terms of gender and religion have been updated, but not so much as
to block the reader's encounter with how Boiardo once viewed the
world. Charles Stanley Ross has degrees from Harvard College and
the University of Chicago and teaches English and comparative
literature at Purdue University. "Neglect of Italian romances robs
us of a whole species of pleasure and narrows our very conception
of literature. It is as if a man left out Homer, or Elizabethan
drama, or the novel. For like these, the romantic epic of Italy is
one of the great trophies of the European genius: a genuine kind,
not to be replaced by any other, and illustrated by an extremely
copious and brilliant production. It is one of the successes, the
undisputed achievements." -C. S. Lewis
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Orlando Innamorato
Matteo Maria Boiardo, Francesco Berni
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R701
Discovery Miles 7 010
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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