Genealogies of Fiction

Eleonora Stoppino is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Illinois.

This impressive study of the 'Furioso' as illuminated by its little-known medieval sources is thorough and well argued. It forms an important contribution to scholarship on early modern narrative, and will doubtless interest scholars of gender studies as well. (—Renaissance Quarterly) "A groundbreaking study of Ariosto's medieval sources that benefits from a vision that brings together gendercriticism and source criticism in heretofore unseen ways."---—Dennis Looney, University of Pittsburgh Examines the figure of Bradamante in the chivalric tradition and in Ariosto's Renaissance-era epic. (—The Chronicle Review) "Establishing contrasts and parallels with little-known works of the vernacular narrative romance tradition, Stoppino displays impressive erudition and performs a service for the criticaldiscussion on Ariosto's poem and on early modern narrative."---—Ronald Martinez, Brown University