Translating women in early modern England : gender in the Elizabethan versions of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso / Selene Scarsi

Author:: Scarsi, Selene
Published:: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
Copyright Date:: ©2010
Physical Description:: x, 207 pages ; 24 cm.

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Series:

Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series

Contents:

Ariosto's female knights -- Ariosto's other female characters -- Addresses to and general comments on women -- Tasso's female characters -- Tofte's Boiardo: Orlando Inamorato -- Tofte's Ariosto: Two tales -- Spenser's Ariosto -- Epilogue: Variations on the same theme. Ariosto's Cantos IV to VI.

Subject(s):

Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 1440 or 1441-1494—Criticism and interpretation
Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533—Criticism and interpretation
Tasso, Bernardo, 1493-1569—Criticism and interpretation
English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism
Women in literature
English literature—Italian influences
Italian literature—Translations into English—History and criticism
Translating and interpreting—England—History—16th century

ISBN:

9780754666202 (alk. paper)
0754666204 (alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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