Floridoro: a Chivalric Romance |
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| Author:
| Fonte, Moderata |
| Editor:
| Finucci, Valeria |
| Series title: | Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-281-12562-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $172.00 |
Book Description:
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The first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, "Floridoro" imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristics dark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceresses" Floridoro" is the story of the two greatest knights of a bygone age: the handsome Floridoro, who risks everything for love, and the beautiful Risamante, who helps women in distress while on a quest for her inheritance. Throughout, Moderata...
More DescriptionThe first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, "Floridoro" imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristics dark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceresses" Floridoro" is the story of the two greatest knights of a bygone age: the handsome Floridoro, who risks everything for love, and the beautiful Risamante, who helps women in distress while on a quest for her inheritance. Throughout, Moderata Fonte (1555 92) vehemently defends women s capacity to rival male prowess in traditionally male-dominated spheres. And her open criticism of women s lack of education is echoed in the plights of various female characters who must depend on unreliable men.
First published in 1581, "Floridoro" remains a vivacious and inventive narrative by a singular poet.
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