Knowra Matteo Maria Boiardo Matteo Maria Boiardo Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441–1494) was an Italian Renaissance poet and count of Scandiano. His unfinished chivalric epic Orlando Innamorato combines Carolingian legend with romance and classical motifs.
Orlando Innamorato : An unfinished Italian chivalric epic by Matteo Maria Boiardo, in which Orlando falls in love with Angelica. This is the poem that made Boiardo enduringly famous.
Interlaced narrative : A narrative technique that alternates among several storylines, suspending one episode to follow another. Boiardo repeatedly interrupts one knight’s adventure to pursue another.
Ludovico Ariosto : An Italian Renaissance poet best known for the chivalric epic Orlando Furioso . Ariosto continued Boiardo’s story and developed its characters and narrative world.
Scandiano : A town in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, historically associated with the Boiardo family and its castle. Boiardo was born into the family that held Scandiano.
Carolingian cycle : A body of medieval literature centered on Charlemagne and his paladins. Boiardo recasts its knights and conflicts in a Renaissance romance.
Ottava rima : An eight-line Italian stanza form with a fixed rhyme scheme, commonly used in narrative poetry. Its recurring stanza pattern gives the poem its pace and oral, episodic feel.
Orlando Furioso : An Italian Renaissance epic by Ludovico Ariosto, continuing the world of Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato . It takes up the unfinished narrative and became the more famous successor.
Ferrara : A city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, that flourished as a Renaissance court under Este rule. Boiardo’s career unfolded in the political and literary orbit of the Este court.
Matter of France : The medieval literary tradition of stories about Charlemagne, his empire, and its knights. Its legendary world supplies many of Boiardo’s heroes and adventures.
Angelica : A princess from Cathay who becomes the object of desire for Orlando and other knights in Italian epics. Her arrival at Charlemagne’s court sets Boiardo’s central romantic conflict in motion.
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