Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic Stephen Taylor An engaging and accessible story

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Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic Stephen Taylor An engaging and accessible storyThe Italian romance epic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with its multitude of characters, complex plots, and roots in medieval Carolingian and Arthurian chivalric romances, was a form popular with courtly and urban audiences. In the hands of writers such as Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, works of remarkable sophistication that combined high seriousness and low comedy were created. Their works went on to influence Cervantes, Milton, Ronsard,