An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century.
An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century.
Sergio Zatti is a professor in the Department of Italian Literature at the University of Pisa.
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Preface Introduction ALBERT RUSSELL ASCOLI 1. The Furioso between Epos and Romance 2. The Quest: Considerations on the Form of the Furioso 3. Turpin’s Role: Poetry and Truth in the Furioso 4. Tasso versus Ariosto? 5. The Shattering of the Chivalric World: Ariosto’s Cinque canti 6. Christian Uniformity, Pagan Multiplicity 7. Errancy, Infirmity, and Conquest: Figures of Conflict 8. Torquato Tasso: Epic in the Age of Dissimulation Notes Bibliography Index
Preface Introduction ALBERT RUSSELL ASCOLI 1. The Furioso between Epos and Romance 2. The Quest: Considerations on the Form of the Furioso 3. Turpin’s Role: Poetry and Truth in the Furioso 4. Tasso versus Ariosto? 5. The Shattering of the Chivalric World: Ariosto’s Cinque canti 6. Christian Uniformity, Pagan Multiplicity 7. Errancy, Infirmity, and Conquest: Figures of Conflict 8. Torquato Tasso: Epic in the Age of Dissimulation Notes Bibliography Index
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