Rinaldo
Author
Original Work
Translator
Language
Year
2017
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
492
ISBN
9781599103594
TORQUATO TASSO composed his first epic poem, Rinaldo,at the age of eighteen. It combines romantic epic — a form popularized by Italian masters like Boiardo and Ariosto — with the classical influences from Virgil and Aristotle. Rinaldo enters a world of jousts and maidens, love and magic spells, hidden enemies and secret friends, disastrous shipwrecks, enchanted castles and unexpected meetings. Tasso’s workoffers all the best elements of Renaissance tales of noble fortunes gone wrong and righted. Max Wickert’s introduction opens the reader to the literary scene of mid-cinquecento Italy: a complex world of competition, jealousy and innovation. “Max Wickert’s magnificent translation — the first in ottava rima verse — finally allows the Rinaldo to take its place in the English-speaking world alongside Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato, Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso,and Tasso’s own Gerusalemme Liberata. First-time readers will be surprised and delighted by this account of young Rinaldo’s romance adventures under the sway of love and desire for— Google Books
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