Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1: Jane E. Everson, Andrew Hiscock, & Stefano Jossa:
Introduction
Part I: Before Reading - The Image
2: Lina Bolzoni: The Visualization of Orlando Furioso: From the
Original Editions to Modern Video Art
3: Luca degl'Innocenti: Reading the Poem 'in the Very Picture'. New
Evidence on Harington's Original Sin
4: Eleonora Stoppino: Ariosto's Seascapes: the British Isles and
the Orlando Furioso
Part II: From the Elizabethans to the Enlightenment
5: Andrew Hiscock: 'englishing th'Italian Ariost': Orlando Furioso
among the Elizabethans. Adaptation and Audience
6: Tobias Gregory: Milton and Ariosto
7: Ita Mac Carthy: Fiordispina's English Afterlives: from Harington
to Ali Smith
Part III: Gothic and Romantic Ariosto
8: Jane E.Everson: Ariosto in England in the Eighteenth Century:
From Antipathy and Ambivalence to Enthusiasm
9: Tim Carter: Lessons in Madness: Orlando Furioso on the
18th-Century Operatic Stage (with Special Reference to Handel)
10: Susan Oliver: Walter Scott and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
11: Maureen McCue: Authorising Ariosto: The Construction of Ariosto
in Early Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals
Part IV: Text and Translation in the Modern Era
12: Marco Dorigatti: Antonio Panizzi, Textual Editor of Ariosto
13: Martin McLaughlin: The Furioso in Translation: 'Lascivious'
Ariosto in Two Modern English Versions
14: Nicola Gardini: Orlando Furioso, Writing and the Construction
of Meaning
15: Stefano Jossa: Entertainment and Irony: Orlando Furioso from
Modern to Postmodern
Bibliography
Jane E. Everson is Emeritus Professor of Italian Literature in the
School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal
Holloway. She is Associate Fellow of the Institute of Modern
Languages Research, University of London, and Honorary Visiting
Fellow of the University of Leicester. She has published widely on
the chivalric epic tradition, Renaissance literature and culture.
She directed the AHRC-funded projects: The Italian Academies
1525-1700: a themed
collection database; and The Italian Academies 1525-1700: the first
intellectual networks of early modern Europe.
Andrew Hiscock is Professor of Early Modern Literature at Bangor
University, Wales, and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at
the Institut de Recherche pour la Renaissance, l'Age Classiques et
les Lumières, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier III. He has
published widely on English and French early modern literature. He
is a Fellow of the English Association, a trustee of the Modern
Humanities Research Association, English editor for the journal
MLR, series editor for
the Yearbook of English Studies and series co-editor for the Arden
Early Modern Drama Guides.
Stefano Jossa is Reader in Italian Studies at Royal Holloway,
University of
London, and has recently held Visiting Professorships at the
Polytechnic (ETH) of Zurich, the University of Parma and the
University of Roma Tre. His research interests include literature
and culture in the Italian Renaissance and the construction of
Italian national identity expressed through literature. He is the
author of La fantasia e la memoria. Intertestualità ariostesche
(Liguori 1996); Rappresentazione e scrittura. La crisi delle forme
poetiche
rinascimentali (1540-1560) (Vivarium 1996); Ariosto (il Mulino
2009); La fondazione di un genere. Il poema eroico tra Ariosto e
Tasso (Carocci 2001).
...outstanding essays, well argued, precisely focused, and fully in
control of their materials
*Warren Chernaik, University of London, Modern Language Review*
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