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Item Details
Title:
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KING TORRISMONDO
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By: |
Torquato Tasso, Maria Pastore Passaro (Trans), Anthony Oldcorn |
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Paperback |
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£32.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0823216349 |
ISBN 13: |
9780823216345 |
Publisher: |
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 1996 |
Pages: |
332 |
Translated from: |
Italian |
Description: |
Described as Tasso's most ambitious project, this epic poem, part history, part fiction, is based on the events of the First Crusade, and was composed upon his release from a seven year confinement in Ferrara. This translation into English also contains the original Italian text. |
Synopsis: |
This tranlation of Torquato Tasso's ll re Torrismondo, the first to be made directly from the Italian into English, is intended to help those students and scholars who do not command the language of the original text. This translation provides readers with a wider range of the Italian tragedy as a genre; it also allows readers to acquire a deeper awareness of the entire spectrum of the Italian Renaissance in its final brilliance. Tasso's King Torrismondo provides an example of Neo-Aristotelian dramatic theory of the second half of the fifteenth century. It incorporates into the dramatic genre elements of the epic lyric poem. Tasso's langugae can also be studied as an example of "imitation" of Virgil, Dante, Petrach, and Tasso's own epic. Finally, Tasso's Torrismondo affords us an opportunity of comparative analysis of French, English, and Spanish literature in the development of tragedy as a European genre. |
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US |
Imprint: |
Fordham University Press |
Returns: |
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