A32=Dr Annalisa Perrotta
A32=Dr Claudia Boscolo
A32=Dr Luca Degl'Innocenti
A32=Dr Maria Pavlova
A32=Dr Stefano Jossa
A32=Leslie Zarker Morgan
A32=Professor Franca Strologo
A32=Professor Jane E. Everson
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Charlemagne
chivalric narratives
chivalric tales
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Dante
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fifteenth century
fourteenth century
Franco-Italian
Italy
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medieval literature
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sixteenth century
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Product details
- ISBN 9781843846710
- Weight: 678g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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An exploration of the many depictions of Charlemagne in the Italian tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and prose.
Chivalric tales and narratives concerning Charlemagne were composed and circulated in Italy from the early fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century (and indeed subsequently flourished in forms of popular theatre which continue today). But are they history or fiction? Myth or fact? Cultural memory or deliberate appropriation? Elite culture or popular entertainment? Oral or written, performed or read? Beginning in the age of Dante with the earliest tales composed for Italians in the hybrid language of Franco-Italian, which draw inspiration from the French tradition of Charlemagne narratives, the volume considers the compositions of anonymous reciters of cantari and the prose versions of the Florentine Andrea da Barberino, before discussing the major literary contributions to the genre by Luigi Pulci, Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto. The focus throughout is on the ways in which the portrait of Charlemagne, seen as both Emperor and King of France, is persistently ambiguous, affected by the contemporary political situation and historical events such as invasion and warfare. He emerges through these texts in myriad guises, from positive and admirable to negative and despised.
LESLIE ZARKER MORGAN is Professor Emerita of Italian and French, Loyola University Maryland.
