Cinque Canti / Five Cantos - Five Cantos

"The Cinque Canti represent an extremely critical period of Italian and European history. This translation is an outstanding achievement. . . . It aims for close fidelity to the original Italian and is highly readable, even elegant."—Albert R. Ascoli, author of Ariosto's Bitter Harmony

About the author

Alexander Sheers studied comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts and at Princeton University. He now practices law in New York City. David Quint is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. His most recent book is Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton (1993).

Summary

This translation brings to English-speaking readers the brooding work of Ludovico Ariosto, a poet of the Italian Renaissance. The unfinished "Cinque Canti" are tragic in tone, depicting the disintegration of the chivalric world of Charlemagne and his knights.

Product details

• Authors: Ludovico Ariosto
• Assisted by: David Quint (Introduction), Quint David (Introduction), David Quint (Translation), Quint David (Translation), Alexander Sheers (Translation), Sheers Alexander (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1996
• EAN: 9780520200098
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20009-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Biblioteca Italiana S.; Biblioteca Italiana; Biblioteca Italiana
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: general, Italian, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets