Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Culture

Jane E. Everson is Emeritus Professor of Italian Literature in the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway. She is Associate Fellow of the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, and Honorary Visiting Fellow of the University of Leicester. She has published widely on the chivalric epic tradition, Renaissance literature and culture. She directed the AHRC-funded projects: The Italian Academies 1525-1700: a themed collection database; and The Italian Academies 1525-1700: the first intellectual networks of early modern Europe.Andrew Hiscock is Professor of Early Modern Literature at Bangor University, Wales, and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour la Renaissance, l'Age Classiques et les Lumières, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier III. He has published widely on English and French early modern literature. He is a Fellow of the English Association, a trustee of the Modern Humanities Research Association, English editor for the journal MLR, series editor for the Yearbook of English Studies and series co-editor for the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides.Stefano Jossa is Reader in Italian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, and has recently held Visiting Professorships at the Polytechnic (ETH) of Zurich, the University of Parma and the University of Roma Tre. His research interests include literature and culture in the Italian Renaissance and the construction of Italian national identity expressed through literature. He is the author of La fantasia e la memoria. Intertestualità ariostesche (Liguori 1996); Rappresentazione e scrittura. La crisi delle forme poetiche rinascimentali (1540-1560) (Vivarium 1996); Ariosto (il Mulino 2009); La fondazione di un genere. Il poema eroico tra Ariosto e Tasso (Carocci 2001).

...outstanding essays, well argued, precisely focused, and fully in control of their materials

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1: Jane E. Everson, Andrew Hiscock, and Stefano Jossa: IntroductionPart I: Before Reading - The Image2: Lina Bolzoni: The Visualization of Orlando Furioso: From the Original Editions to Modern Video Art3: Luca degl'Innocenti: Reading the Poem 'in the Very Picture'. New Evidence on Harington's Original Sin4: Eleonora Stoppino: Ariosto's Seascapes: the British Isles and the Orlando FuriosoPart II: From the Elizabethans to the Enlightenment5: Andrew Hiscock: 'englishing th'Italian Ariost': Orlando Furioso among the Elizabethans. Adaptation and Audience6: Tobias Gregory: Milton and Ariosto7: Ita Mac Carthy: Fiordispina's English Afterlives: from Harington to Ali SmithPart III: Gothic and Romantic Ariosto8: Jane E.Everson: Ariosto in England in the Eighteenth Century: From Antipathy and Ambivalence to Enthusiasm9: Tim Carter: Lessons in Madness: Orlando Furioso on the 18th-Century Operatic Stage (with Special Reference to Handel)10: Susan Oliver: Walter Scott and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso11: Maureen McCue: Authorising Ariosto: The Construction of Ariosto in Early Nineteenth-Century British PeriodicalsPart IV: Text and Translation in the Modern Era12: Marco Dorigatti: Antonio Panizzi, Textual Editor of Ariosto13: Martin McLaughlin: The Furioso in Translation: 'Lascivious' Ariosto in Two Modern English Versions14: Nicola Gardini: Orlando Furioso, Writing and the Construction of Meaning15: Stefano Jossa: Entertainment and Irony: Orlando Furioso from Modern to PostmodernBibliography