The Quest for Epic
Subtitle: From Ariosto to Tasso (Toronto Italian Studies)
Contributors: Dennis Looney (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: July 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780802090317
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; European - Italian; Literary Criticism & Collections / Italian; Continental European; 1474-1533.; 1544-1595.; 16th century; Ariosto, Lodovico,; Gerusalemme liberata; History and criticism; Italian poetry; Orlando furioso; Tasso, Torquato,
First sentence: 1 Recent studies have emphasized how the chivalric romance genre supplied Ariosto with a narrative and thematic code that was at once highly flexible and equipped with well-formulated rules.