by jac3 | Jun 28, 2018
Italy Completed in 1575, first published in 1581. Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata Tasso’s heroic poem in twenty ottava rima cantos fictionalizes the vicissitudes of several leading historical figures from the First Crusade as it...
by jac3 | Apr 14, 2018
Spain Part one published in 1605; part two published in 1615. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quijote de la Mancha Please contact me (jac@columbia.edu) if you are interested in writing an introduction to this work. Author Name Works Cited If applicable. ...
by jac3 | Apr 4, 2018
Italy / France 1623 Giambattista Marino, Adone (Adonis) Giambattista Marino’s Adone can be characterized as a mythical poem. The well-known love story of Venus and Adonis, featured in Cantos III, VIII, XV, XVII, and XVIII of this poem of 20 cantos, is compounded by...
by jac3 | Apr 4, 2018
Italy 1623 Margherita Sarrocchi, La Scanderbeide (Scanderbeide: The Heroic Deeds of George Scanderbeg, King of Epirus) The Scanderbeide is an epic poem of twenty-three cantos written in Italian by Margherita Sarrocchi, first published in a shorter, clearly...
by jac3 | Dec 18, 2017
Italy Completed 1837; first edition 1842. Giacomo Leopardi, Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia (Paralipomena to the Battle of Frogs and Mice) The Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia began to take shape around 1831 from an idea of Giacomo Leopardi, who...
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