{"product_id":"ariosto-and-the-arabs-contexts-for-the-orlando-furioso","title":"Ariosto and the Arabs","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the most dynamic and influential literary texts of the European sixteenth century, Ludovico Ariosto’s \u003ci\u003eOrlando Furioso\u003c\/i\u003e (1532) emerged from a world whose horizons were rapidly changing. The poem is a prism through which to examine various links in the chain of interactions that characterized the Mediterranean region from late antiquity through the medieval period into early modernity and beyond. \u003ci\u003eAriosto and the Arabs\u003c\/i\u003e takes as its point of departure Jorge Luis Borges’s celebrated short poem “Ariosto y los Arabes” (1960), wherein the Furioso acts as the hinge of a past and future literary culture circulating between Europe and the Middle East. The Muslim “Saracen”—protagonist of both historical conflict and cultural exchange—represents the essential “Other” in Ariosto’s work, but \u003ci\u003eOrlando Furioso\u003c\/i\u003e also engages with the wider network of linguistic, political, and faith communities that defined the Mediterranean basin of its time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sixteen contributions assembled here, produced by a diverse group of scholars who work on Europe, Africa, and Asia, encompass several intertwined areas of analysis—philology, religious and social history, cartography, material and figurative arts, and performance—to shed new light on the relational systems generated by and illustrative of Ariosto’s great poem.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54212869783896,"sku":null,"price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674278790.jpg?v=1770264910","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ariosto-and-the-arabs-contexts-for-the-orlando-furioso","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}