Giraldi Cinthio on Romances (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813154756)

Giraldi Cinthio's Discorso intorno al comporre dei romanzi, here translated into English for the first time, was one of the most important critical works of the Renaissance. Written as a defense of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Giraldi's discourse is an inquiry both into the nature of poetry and into the characteristics of the ""heroic"" or epic genre, in which some of the world's richest poems fall. Henry L. Snuggs introduces this translation with an incisive interpretation of Giraldi's critical th

Author: Giraldi Cinthio
ISBN-10: 0813154758
ISBN-13: 9780813154756
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d