- Docente: Daniela Branca
- Credits: 5
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/13
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Arts (cod. 0264)
Course contents
Title of the course: The making of a romance in an italian Renaissance court : Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato
The Renaissance of the north-italian courts of Ferrara and Mantua is absolutely peculiar and reflects a passionate interest about chivalric literature as well as about new classical and humanistic culture. Boiardo's poem is an extraordinary result of this mixing of reinterpretation of medieval tradition according to the requests of the Renaissance and courtly context, and reachs a new and particularly original way of make a romance. The course will provide an analysis of large sections of Boiardo' s Orlando Innamorato exploiting selected and specific critical bibliography.
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