Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance by Dennis Looney

Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance

Dennis Looney

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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...

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