Jane E. Everson

The Italian romance epic in the age of humanism : the matter of Italy and the world of Rome

INTRODUCTION 1. Approaches to the Romance Epic TEXTS AND CONTEXTS 2. Prehistory of the Romance Epic in Italy 3. (Re-)Reading the Classics 4. Petrarch and Boccaccio: Starting Points, Turning Points, and Blind Alleys 5. Books, Readers, and Reception NEW PERSPECTIVES NEW READINGS 6. Mars and Venus - Love and War 7. The Figure of the Hero 8. The One and the Many: Constructing the Plot 9. The Paradoxical Success of the Romance Epic. Ariosto and Beyond ABBREVIATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

READ WHAT I SAY AND NOT WHAT I READ:READING AND THE ROMANCE EPIC INFIFTEENTH-CENTURY FERRARA

Abstract Towards the beginning of Angelo Decembrios mid-Quattrocento dialogue, De Politia litteraria, one of the participants vehemently condemns ‘eos nunclibros [...] quod apud uxores et liberos nostros nonnunquam hybernis noctibus exponamus’ (‘those books, namely, whose pages we may turn oversometimes of a winter evening in the company of our wives and children’).

Writers and performers in Italian drama, from the time of Dante to Pirandello : essays in honour of G.H. McWilliam

This collection of essays from the Harvard Symposium in honour of G.H. McWilliam covers Italian drama from its origins, via the Renaissance and the 19th-century, to Pirandello and Svevo. Contributors question the nature of drama and how and where it can be identified.