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"Translated here for the first time into English, Sergio Zatti's The Quest for Epic is a selection of studies on the two major poets of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, by one of the most important literary critics writing in Italy today. An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the epic literature of the sixteenth century."--Jacket

Italian poetry --- History and criticism. --- Ariosto, Lodovico, --- Tasso, Torquato, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Italian poetry. --- Literary criticism --- Poetry --- Poésie italienne --- History and criticism --- European --- Italian. --- Continental european. --- Histoire et critique --- Ariosto, Ludovico. --- Tasso, Torquato. --- Critique et interprétation. --- Gerusalemme liberata (Tasso, Torquato). --- Orlando furioso (Ariosto, Lodovico). --- 1500-1599. --- Le Tasse --- Campra, André, --- Canada --- Biography --- Dictionaries. --- Biographies --- Dictionnaires anglais --- Orlando furioso (Ariosto, Lodovico) --- Gerusalemme liberata (Tasso, Torquato) --- Tasso napoletano (Tasso, Torquato) --- Gierosalemme libberata (Tasso, Torquato) --- Gierusalemme (Tasso, Torquato) --- Goffredo, overo, Gierusalemme liberata (Tasso, Torquato) --- Codice Urbinate-Latino 413 --- Roland furieux (Ariosto, Lodovico)

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"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."--

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Ariosto, Lodovico, --- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern. --- Poésie latine médiévale et moderne --- History and criticism --- Italy.