Proclaiming a Classic : the Canonization of ""Orlando Furioso""

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Despite its immediate popularity and its acclaim as a modern equal of the ancient epics, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (published in its final version in 1532) was for learned readers a perplexing work: it mixed romance, epic, and lyric poetry, poked fun at its marvelous and outmoded chivalric matter, contained many interrupted narrative threads, and included base and lowborn characters. In exploring the literary debates involved in elevating the Furioso to the rank of a classic, Daniel Javitch maintains that this was the first work of modern poetry to provoke widespread critical controversy, a.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One. THE SUCCESS OF ORLANDO FURIOSO IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY -- Chapter Two. THE LEGITIMATION OF ORLANDO FURIOSO -- Chapter Three. COMMENTARIES ON IMITATIONS IN ORLANDO FURIOSO -- Chapter Four. AFFILIATIONS WITH OVID'S METAMORPHOSES -- Chapter Five. CRITICAL RESPONSES TO NARRATIVE DISCONTINUITY IN ORLANDO FURIOSO -- Chapter Six. LIONARDO SALVIATI'S DEFENSE OF ORLANDO FURIOSO -- Chapter Seven. OTHER DEFENSES OF ORLANDO FURIOSO IN THE 1580s -- Chapter Eight. HARINGTON'S ENGLISH REFRACTIONS OF ORLANDO FURIOSO -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- PRIMARY WORKS CONSULTED -- INDEX

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