The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic
Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Delaware Press
Published:1st May '19
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In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante’s Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci’s Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, and Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, enmity is portrayed as internal, taking the form of tyranny, betrayal, and civil discord. Moudarres reads these works in the context of historical and political patterns, demonstrating that there was little distinction between public and private spheres in Renaissance Italy and, thus, little differentiation between personal and political enemies.
Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
ISBN: 9781644530016
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
Weight: 367g
262 pages