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Traces how Astyanax’s recovery creates a genealogical bridge between classical antiquity and sixteenth-century Ferrara, while distinguishing survival from true rebirth. Compares the night raid and the episode of the homicidal women to show how caretaking and lineage enable doomed youths to endure, thereby shaping the romance genre’s characteristic patterns of fortune, magic, and Eastern association.","Romance and Recovery in Orlando furioso: The Night Raid, the Homicidal Women, and the Pattern of Romance  \nLEONARD NALEN CZ  \nCollege of Mount Saint Vincent  \nAt the end of Homer’s Iliad, Andromache mourns the death of her husband Hector and tells her son Astyanax that just two possible futures await him: enslavement or death.1 Greek poetry and tragedy after Homer recount only the latter fate, and Astyanax’s death is depicted “on temple pediments and painted vases.”2 Vergil and Ovid continue the Greek tradition.3 In book 3 of the Aeneid, Andromache is briefly reunited with Aeneas and his son Ascanius; she offers Ascanius golden robes and says to him: “Take them. The last gifts of your own people. You are the only image of my Astyanax that’s left. His eyes, his hands, his features, so like yours—he would be growing up now, just your age.”4  \nThere is a suggestion of Astyanax’s survival in the physical resemblance to Ascanius his mother notes—“His eyes, his hands, his features, so likeyours”—but this is figurative: only the ghost of her son is left in his young kinsman’s bearing and appearance. In all the legends of antiquity, Astyanax dies.  \nIn the third book of the Orlando innamorato (1494), Matteo Maria Boiardo draws on a medieval tradition according to which Astyanax survives. In Boiardo ’s version of the story, Astyanax is saved by his resourceful and self-sacrificing mother, who snatches another young boy up as a decoy  \n1. Homer, The Iliad, trans. Robert Fagles (New York: Penguin, 1990), 24.862–68.  \n2. Bernard Knox, introduction to ibid., 37 . Euripides ’s Andromache and Trojan Women are frequently cited sources for the death of Astyanax at Troy. Leo Bersani, A Future for Astyanax: Character and Desire in Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976), begins with a discussion of Racine’s Andromaque (1667), another story in which Astyanax survives, in that case because his mother consents to marry the marauding Greek, Pyrrhus.  \n3. Ovid recounts the death of Astyanax, thrown from the walls of Troy, in Metamorphoses, trans. Frank Justus Miller, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1916), 13.413–17.  \n4. Vergil, The Aeneid, trans. Robert Fagles (New York: Viking, 2006), 3.488–91.  \nModern Philology, volume 121, number 3, February 2024 .  \n© 2024 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published by The University of Chicago Press. [https://doi.org/10.1086/728395](https://doi.org/10.1086/728395)  \n252 M O D E R N P H I L O L O G Y  \nand runs away with him in her arms until both she and that child are caught and killed by the Greeks.5 Like Boiardo, Ludovico Ariosto claims to be tracing the lineage of the Este rulers of Ferrara from Hector of Troy; for the sake of their patrons, both poets need to have Astyanax survive.6 In canto 36 of the Orlando furioso (1516, 1521, 1532), Ruggiero tells his twin sister Marfisa the story of Astyanax’s survival:  \nRuggiero incominciò, che da’ Troiani  \nper la linea d’Ettorre erano scesi;  \nche poi che Astïanatte de le mani  \ncampò d’Ulisse e da li aguati tesi,  \navendo un de’ fanciulli coetani  \nper lui lasciato, uscí di quei paesi;  \ne dopo un lungo errar per la marina,  \nvenne in Sicilia e dominò Messina.  \n(36 . 70)7  \n[Ruggiero began, saying that they were descended from the Trojans through the lineage of Hector; because after Astyanax escaped from the hands of Odysseus and his covert ambushes, and one of the boys of his age was left behind in his place, Astyanax departed those lands;  \nand after a long time as a sailor, he came to Sicily, and became lord of Messina.]  \nThe recovery of Astyanax provides a genealogical connection between classical antiquity and sixteenth-century Ferrara. It is not—significantly—a rebirth: itisa story ofunlikely survival. Ariosto’s characterAstyanax establishes a type within the Furioso: the doomed youth who survives with the help of a maternal caretaker. In the night raid (cantos 18–19), the character  \n5. “La ritrov","cbCaieZP8tO3zxDB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieZP8tO3zxDB","pdf",139038,4,1,21,"English","en",105,"# Romance and Recovery in Orlando furioso\n## Astyanax’s survival and its classical background\n## Medieval and Renaissance reframings (Boiardo and Ariosto)\n## Night raid rescue: caretaking and revival\n## The homicidal women episode: heirs who survive\n## Genre implications: romance, magic, and Eastern fortune","[{\"question\":\"What makes Astyanax’s recovery central to the study?\",\"answer\":\"Astyanax’s recovery links classical antiquity to Renaissance Ferrara and functions as “unlikely survival,” not rebirth. 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