About this title: Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso , Boiardo's chivalric tale dating from the 1480s, first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in Italy. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit of Angelica through a fairyland that combines the military valours of Charlemagne's crusaders with the enchantments of King Arthur's court. Charles Ross, translator of the only complete Innamorato in English, has partially abridged his translation for this edition. His choice of tetrameter allows a line-for-line translation without the need for padding, and ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: General Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781458997975ISBN:1458997979
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 5.98 by 9 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00136 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: General Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780217099875ISBN:0217099874
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 5.98 by 9 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00140 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Description: *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961* quarto, 343 pp., engraved title, original vellum now partly separated from the boards, textually very clean and seldom perused. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780192824387ISBN:0192824384
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Publisher: Adriano Salani, Editore, Firenze
Date Published: 1926
Description: Good+ No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Covers lighly soiled, gold text lightly rubbed; pages yellowed esp. around edges; foxing on edges of page block. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Romagnoli Dall'Acqua
Date Published: 1907
Description: No dust jacket. Pages browning. Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition, suitable as a study copy., 950grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Adriano Salani, Editore
Date Published: 1926
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition, suitable as a reading copy. Ships within 24 hours. Volume Two. No dust jacket., 350grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Adriano Salani, Editore
Date Published: 1926
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition, suitable as a reading copy. Ships within 24 hours. Volume 1. No dust jacket., 350grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Societa Editirice Sonzogno, Milano
Date Published: 1908
Description: Near Very Good. Original decorated paper covered boards over vellum spine. From the library of the former dean of fine arts at UCLA with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. In Italian. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PARIOR PR
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781932559019ISBN:1932559019
Description: New. Like Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" and Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered, " Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1995-11-23
ISBN-13:9780192824387ISBN:0192824384
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Unione Tipografico
Date Published: 1951
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy. Ships within 24 hours. No dust jacket. Pages browning. Volume Primo., 1100grams, ISBN: read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, Torino
Date Published: 1974
Description: Near Fine. 8vo. Hardcover in original acetate sleeve. Green cloth with ornate spine decorated in gilt and black. 669; 656 pp. 15 illustrations. Edited by Aldo Scaglione. Classici Italiani series. Small ink name on front free endpaper and date on verso; else a beautiful set. Text in Italian. read more
"A little long and a bit thick with bloody battles of solo knights v. armys of ten thousand. I like the story and the intoxicating sense of adventure, but the characters are a bit flat, which is why this earlier romance doesn't appeal as much to me."
"I like Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto better, but this book that inspired Ariosto's work is still pretty enjoyable. I would have been happy to read the whole thing except that I suddenly stopped caring about knights errant and their adventures, probably because that's almost all I've been reading for the last few months and I felt all of a sudden that I'd gotten what I needed to out of the genre. Another thing is that Orlando Furioso summarizes a lot of the events that take place in this book, so there wasn't very much in the story that I didn't already know about. And it's the kind of book you read for superficial amusement, so I didn't feel like I was losing very much by putting it down before I'd read half of it. Maybe someday I'll pick it up again, but I think I'm more likely to re-read Orlando Furioso instead, especially because I don't care for the verse translation (mostly unrhymed but in an iambic meter) that was used for Orlando Innamorato, and it is the only translation ever made available in English."
"If you want a thousand pages of Renaissance comedy, you might should read it. I liked Boiardo a lot, and I think more people should read it, especially people who are going to read Orlando Furioso (its sequel, which refers to it constantly). It's kind of like professional wrestling: drama with intermittent and less interesting fights. My other theory (this was read during a directed reading class in Comp Lit this summer on Renaissance Italian epics) about it has to do with its endlessness and the relationship of infinite narrative to the putting off of death. It didn't work, though. He died with the poem unfinished."
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