Ariosto, Opera, and the 17th Century

Evolution in the Poetics of Delight

by Edward Milton Anderson and Nicola Badolato

Book cover: Ariosto, Opera, and the 17th Century

Extent: 280 pages

Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Subjects: Literary Studies, Music & Performing Arts

Series: Historiae Musicae Cultores

Series volume number: 132

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(June 2017)

ISBN: 9788822265012

Price: $40.00

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The success of Orlando furioso in Italian musical theatre is vast and complex. This book examines the main phases of the circulation and influence of Orlando furioso on the seventeenth-century music scene by reconstructing an overall historical and critical profile, but also through the recovery and philologically verified transcription of about forty dramatic texts derived from Ariosto’s main narrative currents.

  • By (author) Edward Milton Anderson
  • By (author) Nicola Badolato