Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance

by Dennis Looney

This text examines the evolution of narrative poetics in three of the canonical poems of the Italian Renaissance, the romance-epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso. It shows how these poets renovated the popular genre of romance into a new kind of narrative.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814326005
• ISBN13: 9780814326008
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"