This lecture focuses on three main aspects concerning the 26th canto of the Orlando furioso: intertesxtual connections with Boiardo's Inamoramento de Orlando, Ariosto's view of contemporary politics, and some stylistic remarks. Ariosto's treatment of his most relevant forerunner is somehow ambiguous and quite dialectic. A huge part of the canto consists of a rich ekphrasis which represents the Italian political landscape from 1516 to 1532: many of the rulers named in the text will owe their celebrity to Ariosto's stanzas and will remembered exactly in the same words for a long time. A stylistical survey shoes some significant improvements from 1516 to 1532 and confirms the importance of Dante among sources of the Furioso.
Canova, A., Canto XXVI, in Izzo A, I. A., Tomasi F, T. F. (ed.), Lettura dell'Orlando furioso, Edizioni del Galluzzo per la Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Firenze 2018: 85- 104 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/130741]
Canto XXVI
Canova, Andrea
2018
Abstract
This lecture focuses on three main aspects concerning the 26th canto of the Orlando furioso: intertesxtual connections with Boiardo's Inamoramento de Orlando, Ariosto's view of contemporary politics, and some stylistic remarks. Ariosto's treatment of his most relevant forerunner is somehow ambiguous and quite dialectic. A huge part of the canto consists of a rich ekphrasis which represents the Italian political landscape from 1516 to 1532: many of the rulers named in the text will owe their celebrity to Ariosto's stanzas and will remembered exactly in the same words for a long time. A stylistical survey shoes some significant improvements from 1516 to 1532 and confirms the importance of Dante among sources of the Furioso.
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