The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso

by Andrea Moudarres

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644530015
• ISBN13: 9781644530016
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"