A history of Italian literature

by Richard Garnett

ROMANTIC POETRY

This subject is most fully treated in general histories, whether of Italian or romantic literature. Panizzi’s introduction to his edition of Boiardo and Ariosto (1831), though in many respects erroneous or antiquated, deserves attention, as does Ferrario, Storia ed Analisi degli antichi Romanzi di Cavalleria, 1828-29. Ariosto’s indebtedness to earlier romancers has been investigated by Rajna, Le Fonti dell’ Orlando Furioso. Leigh Hunt’s Stories from the Italian Poets is a charming companion to Italian chivalric poetry.