'Donna liberata'? The portrayal of women in the Italian Renaissance epic

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie Günsberg
Keyword(s):  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Renaissance Epic

Italian Renaissance epic

2010 ◽  
pp. 93-118
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Mazzotta
Keyword(s):  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Renaissance Epic

scholarly journals Walter Scott and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso

2019 ◽  
pp. 186-209
Author(s):  
Susan Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Narrative Poetry ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Orlando Furioso ◽  
The North ◽  
Walter Scott ◽  
Power Of Words ◽  
Renaissance Epic

Walter Scott proclaimed Ariosto his favourite Romance poet and Orlando Furioso his preferred epic. Byron subsequently called him the Ariosto of the North, and Ariosto the southern Scott. For Scott, the power of words to ‘make a ladye seem a knight’ or transform a sheeling into a palace associates Scottish folk culture with necromantic tales from medieval Italy and France. His life’s work shows the influence of the Italian Renaissance epic tradition to which the Furioso belongs. Scott’s collected ballads, narrative poetry, and novels demonstrate a complex response to Ariosto’s signature techniques of imitatio and entrelacement. His interest in oral literary history also connects him to improvisatori traditions. Scott’s interest in Ariosto extended beyond his writing career. Reading Orlando became a self-prescribed palliative for ‘mental and bodily fever’. The prospect of an ‘Orlando cure’ for frenzy is intriguing. This chapter explores the connections between Scott and Ariosto’s Furioso.

The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Moudarres
Keyword(s):  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Renaissance Epic
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