Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- General Preface: Charlemagne: A European Icon
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Terminology
- Introduction
- 1 The First Franco-Italian Vernacular Textual Witnesses of the Charlemagne Epic Tradition in the Italian Peninsula: Hybrid Forms
- 2 The Italian cantari on Charlemagne
- 3 Carlo Magno, Ideal Progenitor of Country and Lineage: the Image of Charlemagne in the Prose Compilations of Andrea da Barberino
- 4 Tradition and Innovation in the Fifteenth Century: from Anonymous Poems to Luigi Pulci’s Morgante
- 5 Matteo Maria Boiardo: Inamoramento de Orlando
- 6 Crisis and Continuity at the Turn of the Century
- 7 From Emperor to Pawn: Charlemagne in the Orlando Furioso
- 8 An Undying Tradition: the Afterlife of Charlemagne in Italy
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- General Preface: Charlemagne: A European Icon
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Terminology
- Introduction
- 1 The First Franco-Italian Vernacular Textual Witnesses of the Charlemagne Epic Tradition in the Italian Peninsula: Hybrid Forms
- 2 The Italian cantari on Charlemagne
- 3 Carlo Magno, Ideal Progenitor of Country and Lineage: the Image of Charlemagne in the Prose Compilations of Andrea da Barberino
- 4 Tradition and Innovation in the Fifteenth Century: from Anonymous Poems to Luigi Pulci’s Morgante
- 5 Matteo Maria Boiardo: Inamoramento de Orlando
- 6 Crisis and Continuity at the Turn of the Century
- 7 From Emperor to Pawn: Charlemagne in the Orlando Furioso
- 8 An Undying Tradition: the Afterlife of Charlemagne in Italy
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- Charlemagne in Italy , pp. xi - xiiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2023