Giraldi Cinthio on Romances
Giraldi Cinthio on Romances
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Giraldi Cinthio's Discorso intorno al comporre dei romanzi, here translated into English for the first time, was one of the most important critical works of the Renaissance. Written as a defense of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Giraldi's discourse is an inquiry both into the nature of poetry and into the characteristics of the ""heroic"" or epic genre, in which some of the world's richest poems fall. Henry L. Snuggs introduces this translation with an incisive interpretation of Giraldi's critical th
Author: Giraldi Cinthio
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780813154756
Author: Giraldi Cinthio
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780813154756
About the Author
Henry L. Snuggs is professor of English at Wake Forest University.
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