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CONTENTS
INDEX
RENAISSANCE IN ITALY
 ITALIAN LITERATURE
 In Two Parts
BY
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
Author of
"Studies of the Greek Poets," "Sketches in Italy and Greece," etc.
"Italia, sepoltura
De' lumi suoi, d'esterni candeliere"
Campanella: Poesie Filosofiche.
 PART II
colophon
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1888
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CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND PART.
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CHAPTER IX.

THE ORLANDO FURIOSO.
Orlando Furioso and Divina Commedia—Ariosto expresses the Renaissanceas Dante the Middle Ages—Definition of Romantic,Heroic, Burlesque, Heroic-comic, and Satiric Poems—Ariosto'sBias toward Romance—Sense of Beauty in the Cinque Cento—Choiceof Boiardo's unfinished Theme—The Propriety of thisChoice—Ariosto's Irony and Humor—The Subject of the Furioso—Siegeof Paris—Orlando's Madness—Loves of Ruggiero andBradamante—Flattery of the House of Este—The World of Chivalry—Ariosto'sDelight in the Creatures of his Fancy—CloseStructure of the Poem—Exaggeration of Motives—Power ofPicture-painting—Faculty of Vision—Minute Description—RhetoricalAmplification—Rapidity of Movement—Solidity—Nicetyof Ethical Analysis—The Introductions to the Cantos—Episodesand Novelle—Imitations of the Classics—Power of Appropriationand Transmutation—Irony—Astolfo's Journey to the Moon—Ariosto'sPortrait—S. Michael in the Monastery—The Cave ofSleep—Humor—Pathos and Sublimity—Olimpia and Bireno—Conceptionof Female Character—The Heroines—Passion andLove—Ariosto's Morality—His Style—The Epithet of Divine—ExquisiteFinish—Ariosto and Tasso—Little Landscape-Painting—Similes—Realism—Adaptat                        
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