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Article: The Genesis of Tasso's Narrative Theory: English Translations of the Early Poetics and a Comparative Study of Their Significance.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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Lawrence Rhu's The Genesis of Tasso's Narrative Theory provides much-needed translations of three prose texts by Tasso: the prefatory remarks to Rinaldo (1562), the Discorsi dell'arte poetica (1562-65), and the "Allegoria del poema" (1575-76), which first appeared in the Bonna editions of Gerusalemme liberata (1581). The book also includes a three-part introductory essay consisting of sections entitled "Authority and Tradition: Young Tasso's Reckoning with Aristotle and Ariosto"; "Romancing the Word: Neo-Aristotelian and Protestant Poetics in Tasso and Spenser"; and "Milton's Change of Note: Italian Precedents for Tragedy in Eden."
In the first part of the ...