Ariosto and the Arabs - Contexts for the Orlando Furioso

Ariosto and the Arabs sheds new light on Ludovico Ariosto's famous poem Orlando Furioso. The sixteen essays assembled here, produced by diverse scholars who work on Europe, Africa, and Asia, encompass several intertwined areas of analysis-philology, religious and social history, cartography, material and figurative arts, and performance.

About the author

Mario Casari is Associate Professor in Persian Language and Literature at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome. His expertise in Arabic and Persian underpins research in the circulation of texts and cultural exchange in the Mediterranean and Middle East from late antiquity to the early modern period.Monica Preti is Head of Academic Programs in the History of Art and Archaeology at the Auditorium du Musée du Louvre and Director of the Fondazione Pistoia Musei. Her research explores the relationship between art and literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the history of taste, and the history of collecting and museums from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries.Michael Wyatt is Resident Scholar in the Department of French and Italian and Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. His work is engaged with the premodern intellectual and cultural history of Italy, focused within a European and Mediterranean matrix, and dealing particularly with translation as both textual and sociopolitical practice.

Summary

Ariosto and the Arabs sheds new light on Ludovico Ariosto’s famous poem Orlando Furioso. The sixteen essays assembled here, produced by diverse scholars who work on Europe, Africa, and Asia, encompass several intertwined areas of analysis—philology, religious and social history, cartography, material and figurative arts, and performance.

Product details

• Authors: Mario Preti Casari
• Assisted by: Mario Casari (Editor), Monica Preti (Editor), Preti Monica (Editor), Michael Wyatt (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780674278790
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27879-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: I Tatti Research Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, Italy, Middle East, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Italian, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600