Orlando Innamorato (The World's Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0192824384 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 466 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-07 |
| Language | : | Italian |
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Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: Italian
Charles Stanley Ross is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University.
K. Howe said It's the only game in town, but it could use some editing. Look--if you're going to read the Innamorato (in verse and not abridged), this is what you're going to buy, like it or not. Oh, but you *will* like it. The verse is fine so far as it goes, and it's probably best that Ross avoids rhyme on the whole (rhyming maybe some 5% of the time),. Odo of Venafro said Italian Epic. Hello Amazon people. Amazon People! Feel my love. Feel my joy. Feel my fire. This is not so much a review of "Orlando Innamorato", than it is an overview of Italian Renaissance epic. I hope Amazon lets me do it. I have written a couple professors, but now I want to share it with the . Overlooked Joy Clifford R. Fischer Knowing the history of this book, or rather this Italian Romance, it is sad that it has been forgotten by many and only recently translated. I'm not sure I've ever read a "classic" or "great book" which was more outright fun and entertaining than this one. The legend of Orlando and R
This newly translated and abridged edition is the only one available, and it offers thorough annotation as well as an introduction and maps.. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-striken pursuit of Angelica through a fairyland that combines the military valours of Charlemagne's crusaders with the enchantments of King Arthur's court. Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Boiardo's chivalric verse tale, dating from the 1480s, first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara