...Daniel Javitch This essay challenges the view that the last part of Orlando furioso takes an “epic” turn and abandons many of the “romance” features that characterize its first half. The essay does so by considering (1) the anachronism of projecting onto the Furioso a desire on Ariosto's part...

... surplus (within which information has no a priori value). Three examples are analyzed in depth: the heroscopía from book 6 of Virgil's Aeneid , in which Roman history is portrayed as a triumphal procession; Astolfo's voyage to the moon in canto 34 of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso , with its inventory...

...Daniel Javitch © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Daniel Javitch is professor of comparative literature at New York University. He is author of Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of“Orlando Furioso” (1991). A collection of essays on Ariosto's poem is in progress. The Poetics...

...Ralph A. Haug Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 MILTON AND SIR JOHN HARINGTON By RALPHA. HAUC That in 1641-2 Milton was reading Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso in Sir John Harington’s translation (the 1591 edition) we know because he...

... Furioso David Quint Cervantes owed much to Ariosto when he created the novel in Don Quijote. He derived from the Orlando furioso both the narrative technique of interlace, which places multiple story lines next to one another, and Ariosto’s particular use of it to juxtapose...

... of sexuality as an aspect of woman’s heroic ethos. This thought owes much to Chaucer, Ovid, Ariosto, and Tasso, as well as to Virgil’s Dido. But these authors do not struggle toward a realization of feminine heroism. By contrast, much of the excite- ment of reading Spenser lies in the poet’s hard...

... and by Ariosto as the story of Cloridano and Medoro, gaining by degrees emotional power and, eventually, narrative relevance. At times poets seem to be holding the door for their successors, as when Virgil’s hero unexpect- edly wavers before killing Turnus: “it is the hesitant, enigmatic silence...

...). 3922. Bennett, Josephine Waters. “Genre, Milieu, and the ‘Epic- Romance EngZish Institute Essays, 1951, pp. 95-125. Ed. Alan s. Downer. New York : Columbia Univ. . Press, 1952. (Discusses Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser.) 3923. Benoit, Fernand. “Le Monde de 1’ ‘Au-deli’ dans...

.... He was also well read in English history and romance.9 But without Malory, Piers Plow- man, Bevis of Hampton, or Stephen Hawes, The Faerie Queene would still be The Faerie Queene. Not so without Ariosto. Without Barnabe Googe, there would still be a Shepheardes Calender. But not without Marot...

... of September, a year later, was not able to manage more than six or eight stanzas of Ariosto at a time.26The hypothesis of the French translation would be more acceptable if it could be shown that Keats had access to one, or even if Ridley’s verbal paral- lels were more convincing.26 As it is, we...

... ingenuity, without any change in the characters and without divine intervention] (Scritti critici, 179-80). Giraldi then indicates exemplary plots of both genres that one might follow, including, in the case of comedy, some of Ariosto’s modern plays: Come tra le tragedie 1’Edipo tiranno...

...,” with revisions made to correspond with changes in the poet’s plans for and attitude toward his work. The earliest work appears in Books I11 and IV, where the influence of Ariosto is most apparent. The poet began-in a lighter vein than that indicated by the letter to Ralegh-with a continuation...

... seriatim in the order of the published poem, is the product of “ten years of experimentation,” with revisions made to correspond with changes in the poet’s plans for and attitude toward his work. The earliest work appears in Books I11 and IV, where the influence of Ariosto is most apparent...

... and resumes his epic task: killing suitors, founding Rome, reinforcing Charlemagne, or liberating Jerusalem. Examples of the layover include some of the most famous episodes in epic tradition: Dido’s Carthage (Virgil), Dragontina’s Garden (Boiardo), Alcina’s Island (Ariosto), Armida’s Palace (Tasso...

... decadence? And what about the regrettable antimony between the splendor of the Italian intellect and the misfortunes of Italy-the antimony that was best reflected for De Sanctis in the figure of Ariosto, who, in 1494, when Charles VIII was leading the barbarian hordes into Italy, murmured...

... [1756]: 374) whose observations, unlike Huggins’s, “are very ingenious and entertaining” (375). 4 The Satires of Ludovico Ariosto, trans. by the Reverend Mr. H—rt—on and T. H. Croker (London, 1759), 13n*. Croker attributes the blamable stiffness of his...

.... 1942. Rev. by Howard Lee Nostrand in MLQ, IV (1943), 101-102. 2505. Poets at the Court of Ferrara: Ariosto, Tasso, Guarini. Boston : Excelsior Press, 1943. 2506. Guhon, Ren6. “Le Saint Graal.” Le Voile d‘lsis, XXXIX (1934), 47-48. 2507. Hammer, Jacob. “Another...

.... Poets at the Court of Ferrara : Ariosto, Tasso and Guarini. With a chapter on Michelangelo. [Introduction by Elmer V. Grillo.] Boston: The Excelsior Press, 1943. Pp. xxi + 143. $2.00. SPANISH-AMERICAN* Marinello, Juan. Espaiiolidad Literaria de Josb Marti. Havana...

... of Ariosto’s Bradamante. The unique mixture of mas- culine and feminine attributes which resulted has been almost uni- formly praised. Herbert E. Cory finds that “Britomart easily har- monizes sweetness and power in a way that is above all things wom- anly.”8 M. Pauline Parker comments: “Yet...

... I‘aventirre et de l’amour. 1947. Rev. by Theodore Silverstein in MP, XLVI (1948), 63-66: by J. Yvon in MA. LIII (1947), 309-311 ; by William A. Nitze in Speculum, XXIII (1948), 290-294. 2940. Binni, IValter. Metodo c poesin di Ludovico Ariosto. (Studie di Lettere, Storia e Filosofia pubblicati...