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Article: Fra Ariosto e Tasso: vicende del poema narrativo.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2008
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Guido Sacchi. Fra Ariosto e Tasso: vicende del poema narrativo.
Con un'appendice di studi cinque-secenteschi. Studi 7. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006. 428 pp. index. append. bibl. [euro]30. ISBN: 88-7642-183-1.
This volume provides a tantalizing vista of the chivalric landscape between the publication of the Orlando furioso (1532) and the Gerusalemme liberata (1581). Whereas many previous scholars have asserted the popularity of romance epics during this period, Sacchi is the first to offer a systematic and comprehensive account of the new editions printed over the course of the six decades in question. He has identified twenty-seven authors who ...