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Matteo Maria Boiardo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Matteo Maria Boiardo The Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo, Conte di Scandiano (1440-1494), is best known for...poem in which love is the dominant theme. Matteo Maria Boiardo was born at Scandiano near Reggio Emilia. He went to Ferrara...
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Boiardo, Matteo Maria
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Boiardo, Matteo Maria (1441–94), an Italian poet of the old chivalry, whose principal work was the unfinished Orlando Innamorato .
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Ludovico Ariosto
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...papal court. Ariosto's Orlando furioso, a continuation of Boiardo's Orlando innamorato, went through three redactions, or...Twayne Publishers 1974. Marinelli, Peter V., Ariosto and Boiardo: the origins of Orlando furioso, Columbia: University of...
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Francesco Berni
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...capitoli, light, often ribald verses in terza rima. He revised Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, adding humorous touches and what he...stylistic improvements. For many years Berni's rendering of Boiardo was the standard version; it has been generally discarded...
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Italian Literature and Language
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...circle; Orlando innamorato (1483, 1495) by Matteo Maria Boiardo; and Orlando furioso (1516, 1521, 1532) by Ludovico Ariosto...soldier, further strengthening Este claims to legitimacy. Boiardo's poem also introduced Roland's love for the Chinese princess...
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Sir Anthony Panizzi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...museum considerable Parliamentary support as well as the bequest of the Grenville library in 1846. His celebrated edition of Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (9 vol.) was published from 1830 to 1834. Panizzi was knighted in...
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Charlemagne (or Charles the Great) (742-814)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...fairy folk by his paladins were not so numerous in the original French romances that deal with his court, but in the hands of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Pulci, the paladins dwelled in an enchanted region where at any moment they might have met with all kinds...
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Rinaldo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Renaud complies and becomes a hermit in Palestine; but Bayard will allow no one else to mount him. As Rinaldo, he figures in Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato , Ariosto's Orlando Furioso , and Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata : in the first two as the cousin...
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Roland
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Italian poets, and Roland was eventually transformed beyond recognition into the Orlando of the Italian Renaissance epics of Boiardo and Ariosto . Translations of the Song of Roland include those by Merriam Sherwood (1938) and Dorothy L. Sayers (1957...
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Italian literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Morgante (c.1480) recounts the adventures of Orlando (Charlemagne's Roland) and other paladins with great comic verve. Boiardo 's Orlando innamorato (3 parts, 1483-1494) adds Breton subject matter to the Carolingian and introduces motifs from classical...
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