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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494615703321

Autore

Moudarres Andrea

Titolo

The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic : Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso / / Andrea Moudarres

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark : , : University of Delaware Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-64453-002-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 249 pages)

Collana

Early Modern Exchange

Disciplina

851.4

Soggetti

Renaissance

Epic poetry, Italian

Renaissance - Italy

Epic poetry, Italian - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Between fathers and sons: sowers of enmity in Inferno 28 -- The enemy within the walls: treachery, pride, and civil strife in Pulci's Morgante -- The enemy as the self: madness and tyranny in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso -- The geography of the enemy: Christian and Islamic empires from the fall of Constantinople to Tasso's Gerualemme Liberata.