Selections from Boiardo's «Orlando Innamorato»: preface by Paolo Valesio (American University Studies) - Hardcover
Without Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, such varied works as Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Spenser's Faerie Queene and Byron's Don Juan would never have been written. Boiardo's style, structure and imagination became the literary model for the epic of chivalry, in Italian and in English. In this first English translation of this central poem to appear for 400 years, English ottava rima faces the original Italian, remaining faithful to its spirit as well as to its letter, while the prefatory commentary details the strange linguistic and political fortunes behind the Innamorato's initial popularity, subsequent eclipse and modern importance.
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Text: English, Italian
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«A tour-de-force. Staebler is in a unique position to vindicate Boiardo for the English-speaking world.» (Paolo Valesio, Yale University)
«Staebler has presented a major, though much-neglected Italian Renaissance poem in a lively, urbane style, endowing an otherwise obscure text with vital new life.» (Herbert S. Lindenberger, Stanford University)
«Staebler's choice of passages to translate is well judged from the point of view of narrative continuity. Staebler says that his goal was 'to maintain ... accessibility in my English verse...'. He achieved his goal; the story line is clear, and the diction and syntax are straightforward. ...the book is very useful if one wants to know 'la bella istoria' - 'the great story', as Staebler says...» (Pamela Joseph Benson, Spenser Newsletter)
«Staebler has presented a major, though much-neglected Italian Renaissance poem in a lively, urbane style, endowing an otherwise obscure text with vital new life.» (Herbert S. Lindenberger, Stanford University)
«Staebler's choice of passages to translate is well judged from the point of view of narrative continuity. Staebler says that his goal was 'to maintain ... accessibility in my English verse...'. He achieved his goal; the story line is clear, and the diction and syntax are straightforward. ...the book is very useful if one wants to know 'la bella istoria' - 'the great story', as Staebler says...» (Pamela Joseph Benson, Spenser Newsletter)
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- PublisherPeter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0820408425
- ISBN 13 9780820408422
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages486
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Selections from Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato (American University Studies Series II, Romance Languages and Literature)
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