When, a generation later, Francesco Berni rewrote Boiardo's incomplete epic Orlando Innamorato, his contemporaries were not all convinced, and some considered it a usurpation. But Berni's aim was to modernise the text, introducing for example references to the Sack of Rome of 1527, which he had witnessed first hand, and his ambition was not to alter or reshape Boiardo's construction, but to enhance his expression. Woodhouse's study examines Berni's stanza-by-stanza rewriting to demonstrate that his aims are, in large measure, both consistent and clearly definable.
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Contents:
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Language and Style in a Renaissance Epic: Berni's Corrections to Boiardo's 'Orlando Innamorato' H. F. Woodhouse Complete volume as single PDF
The issue of language and the factor of genre; The credentials of the rifacitore. Note cues in this chapter refer to endnotes in the end matter of the book.
Word classes: (a) Substantive; (b) Article; (c) Pronoun; (d) Preposition; (e) Verb; (f) Adverb. Word formation: (a) Prefix; (b) Suffix. Note cues in this chapter refer to endnotes in the end matter of the book.
Repetition and overlapping of terms; Logical statement; Disjunction and continuity; Anacoluthon and word order. Note cues in this chapter refer to endnotes in the end matter of the book.
Epithet, antonomasia, apposition; Locative variants and other formulae; Prepositional tag phrases. Note cues in this chapter refer to endnotes in the end matter of the book.
The constraint of rhyme; The distichal unit; Textual suggestion; The narrative dimension. Note cues in this chapter refer to endnotes in the end matter of the book.
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Woodhouse, H. F., Language and Style in a Renaissance Epic: Berni's Corrections to Boiardo's 'Orlando Innamorato', MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 17 (MHRA, 1982)
First footnote reference:35 H. F. Woodhouse, Language and Style in a Renaissance Epic: Berni's Corrections to Boiardo's 'Orlando Innamorato', MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 17 (MHRA, 1982), p. 21.
Subsequent footnote reference:37 Woodhouse, p. 47.
Woodhouse, H. F.. 1982. Language and Style in a Renaissance Epic: Berni's Corrections to Boiardo's 'Orlando Innamorato', MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 17 (MHRA)
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