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The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic

Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso

Andrea Moudarres author

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