Ariosto, the Orlando furioso and English culture /

Marking the fifth centenary of the publication of the first edition of the Italian masterpiece, Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Culture, 1516-2016 brings together an international team of Renaissance scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to analyse in detail the diffuse impact which t...

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Other Authors: Everson, J. E. (Jane E.) (Editor), Hiscock, Andrew, 1962- (Editor), Jossa, Stefano, 1966- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Proceedings of the British Academy ; 221.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Jane E. Everson, Andrew Hiscock and Stefano Jossa
  • Part I Before reading
  • the image. 2. The visualization of the Orlando furioso: from the original editions to modern video art / Lina Bolzoni
  • 3. Reading the poem 'in the very picture'; new evidence on Harington's original sin / Luca Degl'Innocenti
  • 4. Landscape and seascape: the British Isles and the Orlando furioso / Eleonora Stoppino
  • Part II From the Elizabethans to the Enlightenment. 5. 'englishing th'Italian Ariost': the Orlando furioso among the Elizabethans
  • adaptation and audience / Andrew Hiscock
  • 6. Milton and Ariosto / Tobias Gregory
  • 7. Ariosto in England in the eighteenth century: from antipathy and ambivalence to enthusiasm / Jane E. Everson
  • Part III Gothic and Romantic Ariosto. 8. Ariosto in England in the eighteenth century: from antipathy and ambivalence to enthusiasm / Jane E. Everson
  • 9. Lessons in madness: the Orlando furioso on the eighteenth-century operatic stage (with special reference to Handel) / Tim Carter
  • 10. Walter Scott and Ariosto's Orlando furioso / Susan Oliver
  • 11. Authorizing Ariosto: the construction of Ariosto in early nineteenth-century British periodicals / Maureen McCue
  • Part IV Text and translation in the modern era. 12. Antonio Panizzi, textual editor of Ariosto / Marco Dorigatti
  • 13. The Furioso in translation: 'lascivious' Ariosto in two modern English versions / Martin McLaughlin
  • 14. The Orlando furioso, writing and the construction of meaning / Nicola Gardini
  • 15 Entertainment and irony: the Orlando furioso from modern to postmodern / Stefano Jossa.