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Article: Jo Ann Cavallo, The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2006
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Jo Ann Cavallo, The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), 294 pp. ISBN 0-8020-8915-1. $70.00/42.00 [pounds sterling].
In this book, Jo Ann Cavallo re-examines the trajectory of the Italian epic poem. The focal point of her analysis is the figure of Matteo Maria Boiardo and his chivalric poem Orlando innamorato (or Inamoramento de Orlando). This study is the culmination of the author's previous work on Boiardo, situating it in the canon. Here Cavallo wants to reassess 'the extent to which both Ariosto and Tasso used Boiardo to create meaning in their own poems' (p. 7), ...