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Orlando Innamorato

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Orlando Innamorato
Boiardo’s epic combining Carolingian chivalry and Arthurian motifs. [Ital. Lit.: Orlando Innamorato]
See : Epic


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Sacchi separates the latter into concluded (finito) and open-ended (non finito), pointing to the model provided by Boiardo's unfinished Orlando innamorato.
Ariosto was offering a continuation of Boiardo's Orlando innamorato and, in so doing, was bringing into the sixteenth-century reader's world all the actions and settings (Christian and Saracen) and the themes and conventions of medieval chivalric romance, but always in a distinctively new, modern, post-chivalric way.
Pur dopo il grande successo dell'Orlando furioso di Ariosto, continuazione del quattrocentesco Orlando innamorato (o Inamoramento de Orlando) di Matteo Maria Boiardo, a secolo inoltrato si aspiro a congedarsi dai modi del poema cavalleresco per dare vita al "poema eroico" ostentatamente esemplato sull'epica antica.
 
 
 
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