Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INFLUENCES
6. I Two Roman Poets 13
7. II Chaucer 44
8. III Petrarch 67
9. Part Two FOUR RENAISSANCE EPICS
10. IV Boiardo 91
11. V Ariosto 112
12. VI Tasso 182
13. VII Spenser 211
14. NOTES 241
15. Index 271