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Giraldi Cinthio on Romances /

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 po...

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Main Author: Giraldi, Giambattista Cinzio, 1504-1573
Other Authors: Snuggs, Henry L. (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Lexington : The University of Kentucky Press, 1968.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 theory. Giraldi was the first, Snuggs states, to make a significant plea in sixteenth-century critici
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780813164588