Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. General Introduction 3
6. Part I. An Ethics of Action
7. Chapter One. Introduction 11
8. Chapter Two. Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato, Book One (1482-3): Romance 15
9. Chapter Three. Orlando Innamorato, Book Two (1482-3): History 34
10. Chapter Four. Orlando Innamorato, Book Three (1495): Epic 45
11. Part II. Creative Imitation
12. Chapter Five. Introduction 69
13. Chapter Six. Cieco da Ferrara, Il Mambriano (1509) 74
14. Chapter Seven. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516): Didactic Allegory 82
15. Chapter Eight. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516): Novellas of Civic Virtue 99
16. Chapter Nine. Ariosto, Cinque canti (Composed c. 1519-21) 126
17. Chapter Ten. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1532) 134
18. Part III. The Triumph of Romance
19. Chapter Eleven. Introduction 155
20. Chapter Twelve. Trissino, L'ltalia liberata da' Goti (1547-8) 158
21. Chapter Thirteen. Bernardo Tasso, L'Amadigi (1560) 170
22. Chapter Fourteen. Torquato Tasso, Il Rinaldo (1562) 178
23. Chapter Fifteen. Torquato Tasso, La Gerusalemme Liberata (1581) 186
24. Conclusion 229
25. Notes 235
26. Works Cited 265
27. Index 283