The Modern Language Review, October 1st, 2000
The Orlando Furioso: A Stoic Comedy. By CLARE CARROLL. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 174) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. 1998. x + 245 pp. $26.
The interpretation of the Orlando Furioso according to the various ideas and tenets of Stoicism, as understood in early sixteenth-century Italy, is both a novel and possibly a valid approach to the text. Though we have no knowledge of a direct reading of Stoic authors on the part of Ariosto, the setting of a text, the Furioso, in a context, the revival of Stoic ideas, can often yield valuable insig...
HighBeam Research, Free Preview: 'The Orlando Furioso: A Stoic Comedy.(Review)'... Full Membership required for unlimited access. Free 7-day trial.
Subscribers: HighBeam content is only available to HighBeam subscribers. Click the link above for more information.
