Fortune and Romance: Boiardo in America. Ed. by JO ANN CAVALLO and CHARLES ROSS. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 183) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 1998. x + 371 pp. $30.
The year 1494 marked the end of an era. Three of the greatest literary figures of the Italian Renaissance died: Poliziano on 28-29 September, Pico della Mirandola on 17 November, and Matteo Maria Boiardo, Pico's cousin, on 19 December. In 1994, the quincentennial of ...