Southern Europe

“I’ve come to let you hear today / the largest and the fiercest fight, /

the most perverse and perilous, / that verse or prose have ever told.”

Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato 2.30.1 (trans. Charles S. Ross)

Homer, Iliad

Homer, Iliad

Homer, Odyssey

Homer, Odyssey

“Homer,” The Battle of Frogs and Mice

“Homer,” The Battle of Frogs and Mice

Virgil, Aeneid

Virgil, Aeneid

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Statius, Thebaid

Statius, Thebaid

Statius, Achilleid

Statius, Achilleid

Apollodorus, Library

Apollodorus, Library

Chanson de Roland

Chanson de Roland

Cantar de Mio Cid

Cantar de Mio Cid

Renaut de Montauban

Renaut de Montauban

Boccaccio, The Theseid

Boccaccio, The Theseid

Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato

Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato

Martorell, Tirant lo Blanch

Martorell, Tirant lo Blanch

Montalvo, Amadís de Gaula

Montalvo, Amadís de Gaula

Ariosto, Orlando Furioso

Ariosto, Orlando Furioso

Tullia d’Aragona, Il Meschino, altramente detto il Guerrino

Tullia d’Aragona, Il Meschino, altramente detto il Guerrino

Camões, The Lusiads

Camões, The Lusiads

Tasso, Gerusalemme Liberata

Tasso, Gerusalemme Liberata

Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana

Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana

Cervantes, Don Quixote

Cervantes, Don Quixote

Pessoa, Mensagem

Pessoa, Mensagem