The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic - 9781644530016

The Enemy in Italian Renaissance EpicImages of Hostility from Dante to Tasso\nAuthor(s): Andrea Moudarres\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Delaware Press, United States\nImprint: University of Delaware Press\nISBN-13: 9781644530016, 978-1644530016\nSynopsis\nInThe Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic,Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante'sDivina Commedia,Luigi Pulci'sMorgante, Ludovico Ariosto'sOrlando Furioso,and Torquato Tasso'sGerusalemme Liberata,enmity is portrayed as internal, taking the form of tyranny, betrayal, and civil discord. Moudarres reads these works in the context of historical and political patterns, demonstrating that there was little distinction between public and private spheres in Renaissance Italy and, thus, little differentiation between personal and political enemies.\n Published by University of .