Ariosto's Bitter Harmony: Crisis and Evasion in the Italian Renaissance

Focusing on the fundamental Ariostan pairing of education and madness, with all its implications for poetry, Professor Ascoli generates a global reading of the greatest literary work of the Italian Renaissance.

Originally published in 1987.

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