Latin poetry / Ludovico Ariosto ; edited and translated by Dennis Looney and D. Mark Possanza.
2018
PA8125.I6 A75 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Latin poetry / Ludovico Ariosto ; edited and translated by Dennis Looney and D. Mark Possanza.
ISBN
9780674977174 (hardcover)
0674977173 (hardcover)
0674977173 (hardcover)
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Language Note
Poems in Latin with English translations on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
Description
xxvii, 258 pages ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PA8125.I6 A75 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
871/.04
Summary
"Arguably the most important Italian poet of the Renaissance and perhaps the most important European writer before Shakespeare, Ariosto's fame deservedly rests on his narrative poem, Orlando Furioso. In it Charlemagne's war against the Saracens serves as a backdrop to explore typical Renaissance themes such as love, madness, and fidelity, with an elaborate subplot that dramatizes how these themes affect the dynastic fortunes of Ariosto's patrons in the House of Este. The poem was published in over one hundred editions by 1600, so great was its popularity. The additional works that Ariosto composed have inevitably come to be viewed as minor in comparison to the magnitude and renown of his big poem. They include 214 letters, five plays, seven satires in verse, and dozens of lyric poems in Italian and Latin."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and indexes.
Series
I Tatti Renaissance library ; 84.
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