The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781644530016)

In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante's Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci's Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, enmity is portrayed as internal, taking the form of tyranny, betrayal, and civil discord. Moudarres reads these works in the context of historical and political patterns, demonstrating that there was little distinction between public and private spheres in Renaissance Italy and, thus, little differentiation between personal and political enemies.

Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.


Author: Andrea Moudarres
ISBN-10: 1644530015
ISBN-13: 9781644530016
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2019
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d