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The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso.(Book review)
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Renaissance Quarterly
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June 22, 2007
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Sergio Zatti. The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso.
Intro. by Albert Russell Ascoli. Ed. Dennis Looney. Trans. Sally Hill and Dennis Looney. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. viii + 316 pp. index. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-8020-9373-6.
Sergio Zatti's collection of essays, written between 1983 and 1999 and translated elegantly by Dennis Looney and Sally Hill, focuses on the synthesis, development and elaboration of epic and romance genres in the Orlando furioso and the Gerusalemme liberata, thus forecasting the advent of the novel. In the Furioso narrative devices like the narrator's ironic and reflective relationship with the sources would be used later by ...