Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto
Maria Pavlova
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Legenda 28 September 2020 • 298pp ISBN: 978-1-781883-47-1 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781883-50-1 (paperback, 22 January 2023) • RRP £14.99, $19.99, €17.99 ISBN: 978-1-781883-53-2 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR MedievalItalianPoetrystudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. A ubiquitous presence in European chivalric literature, the multifaceted figure of the Saracen Other plays a vital role in shaping the knightly values and ideologies underpinning some of the most influential narrative poems of the Italian Renaissance. By combining historical research and close reading and bringing to bear a wealth of literary and documentary sources, some of which have never before been published, this book analyses portrayals of Saracens and their world in Boiardo’s Inamoramento de Orlando and Ariosto’s Orlando furioso. Pavlova assesses for the first time the degree of realism in Boiardo’s and Ariosto’s representations of Islam and Islamic culture(s) and discusses the ideological implications of the two poets’ innovative treatment of their Saracen characters. She locates these and other fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century chivalric works within the rich, vibrant history of interactions between Italian rulers and their Islamic counterparts as well as within the centuries-long literary tradition, going back to such archetypal texts as the Chanson de Roland and the Chanson d’Aspremont. Maria Pavlova is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick. Reviews:
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Bibliography entry: Pavlova, Maria, Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto, Italian Perspectives, 47 (Legenda, 2020) First footnote reference: 35 Maria Pavlova, Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto, Italian Perspectives, 47 (Legenda, 2020), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Pavlova, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Pavlova, Maria. 2020. Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto, Italian Perspectives, 47 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Pavlova 2020: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Pavlova 2020: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Saracens-their-World-in-Boiardo-Ariosto www.mhra.org.uk/publications/ip-47 |