1 - The Furioso between Epos and romance -- - 2 - The quest : considerations on the form of the Furioso -- - 3 - Turpin's role : poetry and truth in the Furioso -- - 4 - Tasso versus Ariosto? -- - 5 - The shattering of the chivalric world : Ariosto's Cinque canti -- - 6 - Christian uniformity, pagan multiplicity -- - 7 - Errancy, infirmity, and conquest : figures of conflict -- - 8 - Torquato Tasso : epic in the age of dissimulation
"Translated here for the first time into English, Sergio Zatti's The Quest for Epic is a selection of studies on the two major poets of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, by one of the most important literary critics writing in Italy today. An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the epic literature of the sixteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
