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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780421703321

Titolo

Ariosto today : contemporary perspectives / / edited by Donald Beecher, Massimo Ciavolella, and Roberto Fedi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-282-01186-3

9786612011863

1-4426-7098-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

851/.3

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Ariosto and the classics in Ferrara / Dennis Looney -- The Orlando innamorato and the genesis of the Furioso / Antonio Franceschetti -- The history of the Furioso / Alberto Casadei -- 'The nightingale in a cage' : Ariosto and the Este court / Giorgio Masi -- Ariosto : landscape artist / Monica Farnetti -- The advertising of fictionality in Orlando furioso / Daniel Javitch -- A reading of the interlaced plot of the Orlando furioso : the three cases of love madness / Elissa B. Weaver -- The lyric poetry of Ariosto / Roberto Fedi -- The theatre of Ariosto / Stefano Bianchi -- From poem to theatre to cinema : Luca Ronconi's Orlando furioso / Sandro Bernardi -- Ariosto and Calvino : the adventures of a reader / Lucia Re.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays brings together twelve noted Italian and American scholars to provide a complete picture of Ariosto and all his works as an integration of tradition and invention.