Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance

by 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 kind of narrative.
  • ISBN10 0814326005
  • ISBN13 9780814326008
  • Publish Date 1 September 1996
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 20 January 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Wayne State University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English