Da Roland blev italiener – og forelsket
Pia Schwartz Lausten
Italiensk ridderdigtning mellem epos og roman: M.M.Boiardos Orlando innamorato (1495) When Roland became an Italian – and fell in loveThough marking the invention of chivalric epic, so famously mocked by Cervantes, Boiardo’s poem Innamorato (1494) has been overshadowed later, more famous works Ariosto Tasso, very genre epic tends often to be forgotten. This article describes cultural historical conditions for rise 15th century at Este-court Ferrara where elitist humanist culture paradoxically enough coexisted with a special preference among courtiers medieval romances. The presents poem, its many different literary sources, socio-political functions, reception history. borrows both from carolingian arthurian romances, Greek Latin as well three ‘crowns’ 14th century, Dante, Boccaccio Petrarch. argues that it is tempting consider work Boiardo early, ‘dialogical’ novel since several elements M. Bakhtin’s definition genre, especially multiplicity ‘voices’. But (just like Ariosto’s Tasso’s epics) too classicist adventure-like considered modern novel. invents represents thus reflects complexity Renaissance.
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