TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giraldi,Giambattista Cinzio
AU  - Snuggs,Henry L.
TI  - Giraldi Cinthio on Romances: being a translation of the Discorso intorno al comporre dei romanzi 
SN  - 9780813164588
AV  - PQ4624 .G573 1968
PY  - 1968///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University of Kentucky Press
KW  - Epic poetry
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - Giraldi Cinthio's Discorso intorno al comporre dei romanzi, here translated into English for the first time, was one of the most important critical works of the Renaissance. Written as a defense of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Giraldi's discourse is an inquiry both into the nature of poetry and into the characteristics of the ""heroic"" or epic genre, in which some of the world's richest poems fall. Henry L. Snuggs introduces this translation with an incisive interpretation of Giraldi's critical theory. Giraldi was the first, Snuggs states, to make a significant plea in sixteenth-century critici
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