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Italian Literature II: Tristano Riccardiano

By F Regina Psaki (Editor), F Regina Psaki (Translator)
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By F Regina Psaki (Editor), F Regina Psaki (Translator)
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Text with facing translation of the earliest Italian Tristan romance, providing new evidence for the development of the Tristan strand of the Arthurian legend.

This is the first English translation of the earliest Italian Tristan romance, the Tristano Riccardiano, preserved in MS 2543 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence. In Italy, Tristan was more popular than any other Arthurian hero; the French prose Tristan gained great currency, soon yielding Italian prose translations / adaptation...

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