La "Vendetta di Falconetto" e l’"Orlando furioso"
Maria V. Pavlova
This contribution returns to the question of vulgar sources Ariosto, proposing analyze a Carolingian text and its possible relationship with Orlando furioso , so far escaped attention critics: long version Falconetto's Vendetta . It starts an examination points contact between two poems, starting similarities at level individual episodes, arrive more general thematic structural affinities. Taken as whole, study suggests that presence Vengeance whose characters are capable cynical actions not infrequently fall short chivalrous values, could least partially explain some disconcerting elements in depiction chivalry Furioso