King Torrismondo
Dual language ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Pastore Passaro, Maria C. - Contributor
Publication
1997 - Fordham University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
83,000 words, Guess
Page Count
332 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1007253M
- ISBN-100823216330
- OCLC Control Number35718691
- OCLC Control Numberkingtorrismondo0000tass
- Library of Congress Control Number96047133
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- Goodreads4485557
Classifications
- DDC851/.4
- LCCPQ4642.E268 P37 1997
Description
This translation of Torquato Tasso's Il re Torrismondo, the first to be made directly from the Italian into English, is intended to help those students and scholars who do not command the language of the original text. This translation provides readers with a wider range of the Italian tragedy as a genre; it also allows readers to acquire a deeper awareness of the entire spectrum of the Italian Renaissance in its final brilliance. Tasso's King Torrismondo provides an example of Neo-Aristotelian dramatic theory of the second half of the fifteenth century. It incorporates into the dramatic genre elements of the epic lyric poem. Tasso's language can also be studied as an example of "imitation" of Virgil, Dante, Petrarch, and Tasso's own epic. Finally, Tasso's Torrismondo affords us an opportunity of comparative analysis of French, English, and Spanish literature in the development of tragedy as a European genre.
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