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Mellon Foundation Fund for Scholarly Programs  \nand Publications  \nThe Barbara and Craig Smyth Fund for Scholarly Programs and Publications  \nThe Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund  \nThe Malcolm Wiener Fund for Scholarly Programs and Publications  \nWorldwide distribution by Harvard University Press Italian distribution by Officina Libraria  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or in any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nISBN 978-06-7427-879-0 (Harvard University Press)  \nISBN 978-88-3367-152-9 (Officina Libraria)  \n© 2022 I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian  \nRenaissance Studies, Florence © 2022 Officina Libraria, Rome  \nCONTENTS  \nAcknowledgments 7  \nEditorial Note 9  \nIntroduction: Investigating Landscapes around “Ariosto and the Arabs” 11  \nMario Casari, Monica Preti, Michael Wyatt  \nPART I Textual Contexts: Inside the Furioso  \nAriosto and Arabic: Notes on an Unaccomplished Contiguity—A Prologue 25  \nMario Casari  \nChivalric Plurilingualism as a Motif in Italian Literature:  \nFrom the Franco-Italian Tradition to Ariosto 55  \nJacopo Gesiot  \nOrlando furioso: The Saracen Perspective 75  \nMaria Pavlova  \nAriosto’s Religion 99  \nStefano Jossa  \nPART II Textual Contexts: Around the Furioso  \nLiterary Life in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250–1517): A Forgotten Heyday of Arabic Culture  \nThomas Bauer  \nFrom al-Barqa¯ to Albracca: Orlando furioso and the World of the Arabian Nights Claudia Ott  \nJews and Judaism in Ariosto’s Literary Production Fabrizio Lelli  \n“A un giovane Aphrican si donò in tutto”: The Marriage of Africa and India in Ariosto and Camões  \nVincent Barletta  \nPart III Geographical and Visual Contexts  \n“Popul la più parte circonciso”: Ariosto in Ferrara and the Muslim World of His Time Giovanni Ricci  \nAriosto, the Arabs, and the Geo-cartographic Culture of the Este Court Massimo Rossi  \n133  \n153  \n169  \n195  \n215  \n233  \nThe Middle Eastern Intellectual and Artistic Context at the Time of Ariosto Anna Contadini  \nImages of Rodomonte: The Ambiguous Allure of the Enemy in the Furioso and in the Ariostan Figurative Tradition  \nVincenzo Farinella  \nIntercultural Threads in the Figurative Legacy of the Orlando furioso: Two Ariostan Plates of Otto Vaenius on the Chastity and Indecency of Women Monica Preti  \nPart IV Performative Contexts  \n“And of these things a dream was left behind called ʿAntar”: Arabic Performance Traditions of Heroic Poetry  \nDwight F. Reynolds  \nPerforming the Medieval Greek Romance from Digenis Akritis to the Erotokritos Adam J. Goldwyn and Przemysław T. Marciniak  \nTrobar, Cantar, Recitar: Performative Poetics across the Middle Sea—An Epilogue Michael Wyatt  \nContributors Photo Credits  \nIndex of Names  \n265  \n313  \n341  \n381  \n401  \n425  \n453  \n457  \n458  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nThe volume presented here is t","cbCaifOFyP76YWYL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifOFyP76YWYL","pdf",24630816,472,"English","# Introduction: Investigating Landscapes around “Ariosto and the Arabs”\n# Part I Textual Contexts: Inside the Furioso\n## Ariosto and Arabic: Notes on an Unaccomplished Contiguity—A Prologue\n## Chivalric Plurilingualism as a Motif in Italian Literature: From the Franco-Italian Tradition to Ariosto\n## Orlando furioso: The Saracen Perspective\n## Ariosto’s Religion\n# Part II Textual Contexts: Around the Furioso\n## Literary Life in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250–1517): A Forgotten Heyday of Arabic Culture\n## From al-Barqa¯ to Albracca: Orlando furioso and the World of the Arabian Nights\n## Jews and Judaism in Ariosto’s Literary Production\n## “A un giovane Aphrican si donò in tutto”: The Marriage of Africa and India in Ariosto and Camões\n# Part III Geographical and Visual Contexts\n## “Popul la più parte circonciso”: Ariosto in Ferrara and the Muslim World of His Time\n## Ariosto, the Arabs, and the Geo-cartographic Culture of the Este Court\n## The Middle Eastern Intellectual and Artistic Context at the Time of Ariosto\n## Images of Rodomonte: The Ambiguous Allure of the Enemy in the Furioso and in the Ariostan Figurative Tradition\n## Intercultural Threads in the Figurative Legacy of the Orlando furioso\n# Part IV Performative Contexts\n## “And of these things a dream was left behind called ʿAntar”: Arabic Performance Traditions of Heroic Poetry\n## Performing the Medieval Greek Romance from Digenis Akritis to the Erotokritos\n## Trobar, Cantar, Recitar: Performative Poetics across the Middle Sea—An Epilogue","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of “Ariosto and the Arabs” in this volume?\",\"answer\":\"The volume investigates “Ariosto and the Arabs” through multiple contexts—textual, geographical and visual, and performative—linking Ariosto’s Orlando furioso to Arabic and related cultural worlds.\"},{\"question\":\"Which themes does Part I cover within the Furioso?\",\"answer\":\"Part I centers on textual contexts inside the Orlando furioso, including Ariosto and Arabic relations, chivalric plurilingualism, the Saracen perspective, and Ariosto’s religious dimension.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book extend beyond literary analysis?\",\"answer\":\"Later sections examine wider cultural settings: Mamluk Egypt and Syria, the Arabian Nights network, the Este court’s geo-cartographic culture, visual traditions, and Arabic and Mediterranean performance traditions.\"}]","Ariosto and the Arabs - Contexts for the Orlando Furioso - Research Series Volume 4 | PDF",1189]