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Giraldi Cinthio on Romances

by Giraldi Cinthio on Romances

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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

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  • Jul 15, 2014 Pub Date:
  • 9780813154756 ISBN-13:
  • 0813154758 ISBN-10:
  • English Language