Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso

by Finucci

Book Overview

The controversy generated in Italy by the writings of Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso during the sixteenth century was the first historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature. Applying current critical theories and tools, the essays in Renaissance Transactions reexamine these two provocative poet-thinkers, the debate they inspired, and the reasons why that debate remains relevant today.
Resituating these writers'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822322951
• ISBN13: 9780822322955
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"