Cinque Canti / Five Cantos

Name: Cinque Canti / Five Cantos
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ISBN: 9780520200098

ISBN-10: 0520200098

ISBN-13: 9780520200098

Edition: 1996

Authors: Ludovico Ariosto, Alexander Sheers, David Quint, David Quint

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This new translation brings to English-speaking readers an intense and brooding work by the greatest poet of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto. Begun as a sequel to his epic masterpieceOrlando Furioso(1516), the unfinished Cinque Canti are a powerful poem in their own right. Tragic in tone,they depict the disintegration of the chivalric world of Charlemagne and his knights and give poetic expression to a sense of cultural, political, and religious crisis felt in Ariosto's Italy and in early sixteenth-century Europe more generally. David Quint's introduction freshly examines the literary sources and models of the Cinque Canti and discusses the cultural contexts and historical…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Further Reading


Principal Characters of the Cinque Canti


The Plot So Far


Text and Translation


Notes to the Translation