Pulci & Boiardo


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Pulci's Morgante


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Places II Morgante Magiore, the great Italian Renaissance epic by Luigi Pulci, in the context of contemporary Florentine polities. This volume also analyzes the poem's narrative structure and demonstrates the poet's understanding of issues that were to become vital to Florentine historiography a generation later.




Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato


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Jo Ann Cavallo challenges the traditional tendency to view the Orlando Innamorato as "pure entertainment" and argues instead that the poem embodies the principal elements of fifteenth-century Humanist poets.




The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism


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The romance or chivalric epic was the most popular form of literature in Renaissance Italy. This book shows how it owed its appeal to a successful fusion of traditional, medieval tales of Charlemagne and Arthur with the newer cultural themes developed by the revival in classical antiquity that constitutes the key to Renaissance culture.













The Cambridge History of Italian Literature


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'There is no doubt that the present splendid volume ... is likely to remain unrivalled for many years to come for width of coverage, richness of detail, and elegance of presentation.' Modern Language Reviews