Orlando Innamorato
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Orlando Innamorato

  1. 720 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit of "the fairest of her Sex, Angelica" (in Milton's terms) through a fairyland that combines the military valors of Charlemagne's knights and their famous horses with the enchantments of King Arthur's court.Today it seems more than ever appropriate to offer a new, unabridged edition of Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, the first Renaissance epic about the common customs of, and the conflicts between, Christian Europe and Islam. Having extensively revised his earlier translation for general readers, Charles Ross has added headings and helpful summaries to Boiardo's cantos. Tenses have been regularized, and terms of gender and religion have been updated, but not so much as to block the reader's encounter with how Boiardo once viewed the world.

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Yes, you can access Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Charles Stanley Ross in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Littérature & Poésie italienne. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of contents
  6. Preface to the Parlor Press Edition
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Boiardo and His Poem
  9. Boiardo's Life
  10. Boiardo and the Derangement of Epic
  11. Angelica and the Fata Morgana: Boiardo's Allegory of Love
  12. Text and Translation
  13. Annotated Bibliography
  14. The Routes Taken by Orlando and Gradasso
  15. The Routes Taken by the Armies
  16. Book I
  17. Book II
  18. Book III
  19. Notes to the Poem
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index of Names and Places