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

The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso
ISBN-10
1644530023
ISBN-13
9781644530023
Category
History
Pages
322
Language
English
Published
2019-04-10
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Author
Andrea Moudarres

Description

In 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. Moudarres reads these works in the context of historical and political patterns, demonstrating that there was little distinction between public and private spheres in Renaissance Italy and, thus, little differentiation between personal and political enemies. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press

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