The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso |
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| Author:
| Moudarres, Andrea |
| Series title: | The Early Modern Exchange Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64453-001-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2019 |
| Publisher: | University of Delaware Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $41.95 |
Book Description:
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The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante's
Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci's
Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto's
Orlando Furioso, and Torquato Tasso's
Gerusalemme Liberata, enmity is portrayed as internal, taking the form...
More DescriptionIn The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante's Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci's Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, enmity is portrayed as internal, taking the form of tyranny, betrayal, and civil discord.