'My muse will have a story to paint' : selected prose of Ludovico Ariosto /
Ariosto's correspondence paints a detailed portrait of the world he lived and wrote in. While some letters illuminate his day-to-day life, including his work as a provincial commissioner for the ruling Este family of Ferrara, others shed light on the composition and production of his poems and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library.
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| Summary: | Ariosto's correspondence paints a detailed portrait of the world he lived and wrote in. While some letters illuminate his day-to-day life, including his work as a provincial commissioner for the ruling Este family of Ferrara, others shed light on the composition and production of his poems and plays, allowing a glimpse of the man in his creative workshop. Herbal Doctor, a parody of humanism in general and neoplatonic philosophy in particular, may mark a defense of Ariosto's decision to turn away from the philological world of his contemporaries in order to pursue a different kind of learning. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-314) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442640870 1442640871 |