Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes 1. – ‘Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, | For there's a happiness as well care. Music resembles poetry; in each Are nameless graces which methods teach, And master hand alone reach. If, where the rules not far enough extend, (Since were made but promote their end) Some lucky license answer full Th’intent proposed, that is rule…. Great Wits sometimes may gloriously offend, rise faults true Critics dare mend; From vulgar bounds...

Ariosto’s Grace:The View from Lodovico Dolce Ita Mac Carthy (bio) I will try not … to flee the complex reality of text in search definitions but rather adhere it as far possible. will, short, start disembodied ideas materials which literary texts are made, that is, words themselves (Saccone, “Grazia, Affettazione, Sprezzatura” 47). In 1557, (c.1508–68) proclaimed grace be most prestigious marker distinction for writers and artists. same treatise, he hailed Ariosto contemporary poetic...

Preface Introduction ALBERT RUSSELL ASCOLI * The Furioso between Epos and Romance Quest: Considerations on the Form of Turpin's Role: Poetry Truth in Tasso versus Ariosto? Shattering Chivalric World: Ariosto's Cinque canti Christian Uniformity, Pagan Multiplicity Errancy, Infirmity, Conquest: Figures Conflict Torquato Tasso: Epic Age Dissimulation Notes Bibliography Index

This essay argues against the traditional perception of character Marfisa in Orlando furioso as a straightforward symbol women's agency and pro-woman gesture contemporary querelle des femmes. It looks first at success her performance masculinity romance epic then way this is undermined by Ariosto's comical reminder anatomical difference/lack. characteristic narrative ambivalence, I argue, complicates apparent simplicity both Marfisa's portrayal poem's contribution to debate about women. In...

This second part of a two-part essay on the theme travel in "Orlando furioso" reads Astolfo's journey to moon as means gaining critical perspective sixteenth-century court and an allegorical reflection role value literature therein. Emphasizing links between episode Menippean satire, it shows how Ariosto experiments with different narrative modes yield original visions changing infinitely complex world, comment profession writing, celebrate power poetry be at once entertaining instructive.

Although Ludovico Ariosto always hated travelling, the "Orlando furioso" provides a compelling landscape of multiple locations, exotic place names, uncharted geographical spaces, and marvellous journeys. This essay examines what it might mean when literary imagination home-loving poet embarks on such wondrous journeys across new worlds Renaissance globe beyond. It 'actual' imprints "Furioso's" itineraries then offers an assessment interplay between two as useful way thinking about delicate...

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