Ariosto's Active Landscape

• In Event: Real and Imagined Landscapes in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Abstract

This paper interrogates the categories of “space,” “geography,” “landscape” and “perspective” as tools of literary analysis and addresses their relevance to the study of the Renaissance chivalric poem. Following the development of landscape descriptions in the two most important editions of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso (1516 and 1532), it posits the existence of a specific “landscape function” in the poem.

Author

• Eleonora Stoppino, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign