Half-serious rhymes : the narrative poetry of Luigi Pulci / Mark Davie
1998, 1st edition. Dublin : Irish Academic Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #410393
ISBN: 0716526018
Physical description; 199 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; "Published for the Foundation for Italian Studies, University College, Dublin." Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and indexes. Contents; Introduction: Pulci's half-serious rhymes -- Point of departure: "Orlando Rifatto" -- The limits of rewriting: the Margutte episode -- Spectacle into poetry: "La giostra di Lorenzo de' Medici" -- False starts: The new "Morgante" and the "Ciriffo Calvaneo" -- History or romance?: Roncevaux and Charlemagne -- Appendix: Selected source texts: Orlando -- Driadeo d'amore. Subjects; Pulci, Luigi 1432-1484 Criticism and interpretation. Pulci, Luigi 1432-1484. Pulci, Luigi. Narrative poetry, Italian History and criticism. Narrative poetry, Italian. Epik.
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