Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance

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This text examines the evolution of narrative poetics in three of the canonical poems of the Italian Renaissance, the romance-epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso. It shows how these poets renovated the popular genre of romance into a new kind of narrative.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0814326005

ISBN13:9780814326008

Release Date:September 1996

Publisher:Wayne State University Press

Length:244 Pages

Weight:1.32 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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