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...
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. ...
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...
Italy 1858-1860 Giusto Lodico (La Storia dei paladini di Francia) Malaguerra Malaguerra (named Orello at birth and also called Morbello) is a fictional knight who first appears in Giusto Lodico’s Storia dei paladini di Francia [History of...
Portugal 1934 Francisco Pessoa, Mensagem Francisco Pessoa’s Mensagem (1934) is an esoteric national epic simultaneously steeped in reverential homage to the past while paving the way for what it means to compose an epic in the modern era. This duality can be...
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