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Revista Digital Universitaria
Revista Digital Universitaria ISSN: 1607 - 6079 | Publicación mensual | 1 de agosto de 2015 vol.16, No.8

ABSTRACT

Chivalric Literature in Italy



Stefano Neri


This article proposes an overview of the Italian chivalric literature from the first spread of medieval Arthurian and Carolingian tales to the flowering of long poem in the Renaissance, whose apogee is represented by Ariosto’s Orlando furioso.



Keywords: chivalric literature, Italy, Arthurian literature, Carolingian literature, Andrea da Barberino, Luigi Pulci, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Ludovico Ariosto, Amadis of Gaul, Orlando furioso.