Title: Magic in Boiardo and Ariosto
First published: 2000
Description: "This study uses a thematic and structural approach to examine the various functions performed by magic in two important Renaissance epics, Boiardo's Orlando innamorato and Ariosto's Orlando furioso. It breaks new ground by exploring the association of magic with the chaotic and irrational, as contrasted more or less strongly with order and reason. It also examines the poets' use of magic as a vehicle in the Renaissance dialectic between fortune and self-determination."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History and criticism, Italian Romances, Magic in literature, Roland (Legendary character), Romances, Romances, Italian, Boiardo, matteo maria, 1440 or 1441-1494, Ariosto, lodovico, 1474-1533
People: Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533), Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440- or 41-1494)
LC classification: PQ4614 .K57 2000