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Ludovico Ariosto 
Cinque Canti / Five Cantos 

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This new translation brings to English-speaking readers an intense and brooding work by the greatest poet of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto. Begun as a sequel to his epic masterpiece
Orlando Furioso (1516), the unfinished Cinque Canti are a powerful poem in their own right. Tragic in tone, they depict the disintegration of the chivalric world of Charlemagne and his knights and give poetic expression to a sense of cultural, political, and religious crisis felt in Ariosto’s Italy and in early sixteenth-century Europe more generally.


David Quint’s introduction freshly examines the literary sources and models of the Cinque Canti and discusses the cultural contexts and historical occasions of the poem. Printed with facing Italian text, this volume allows the modern reader to experience a work of Renaissance literature whose savage beauty still has the power to chill and fascinate.
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A propos de l’auteur

Alexander Sheers studied comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts and at Princeton University. He now practices law in New York City. David Quint is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. His most recent book is Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton (1993).
Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 368 ● ISBN 9780520916210 ● Taille du fichier 2.8 MB ● Maison d’édition University of California Press ● Publié 2023 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 8916573 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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