Title
King Torrismondo / Torquato Tasso.
ISBN
9780823295975
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]
Copyright
©1996
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (332 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823295975 doi
Summary
This tranlation of Torquato Tasso's ll re Torrismondo, the first to be made directly from the Italian into English, is intended to help those students and scholars who do not command the language of the original text. This translation provides readers with a wider range of the Italian tragedy as a genre; it also allows readers to acquire a deeper awareness of the entire spectrum of the Italian Renaissance in its final brilliance. Tasso's King Torrismondo provides an example of Neo-Aristotelian dramatic theory of the second half of the fifteenth century. It incorporates into the dramatic genre elements of the epic lyric poem. Tasso's langugae can also be studied as an example of "imitation" of Virgil, Dante, Petrach, and Tasso's own epic. Finally, Tasso's Torrismondo affords us an opportunity of comparative analysis of French, English, and Spanish literature in the development of tragedy as a European genre.
Access Note
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System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
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Available in Other Form
print 9780823216345
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
TASSO, A PROTOTYPE OF THE ROMANTIC POET
KING TORRISMONDO, A RENAISSANCE TRAGEDY
KING TORRISMONDO BEYOND THE ALPS
A BRIEF OUTLINE OF TASSO'S TRAGEDY
ABOUT THE TRANSLATION
SONNET
DEDICATION
ATTO PRIMO
ATTO SECONDO
ATTO TERZO
ATTO QUARTO
ATTO QUINTO
NOTES TO THE TRANSLATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
