Year: 1969
Type: book-review
Abstract: by Ovid's Metamorphoses.Bireno's abandonment of Olimpia, Ruggiero's abandon- ment of Alcina and Orlando's liberation of Olimpia are renditions of Ovidian myths but Ariosto plays myth against myth to produce a number of variations on the basic theme of abandonment.In exploring these ideas, Professor Manning provides a novel approach to the problem of Ariosto's indebtedness to his classical sources.The final paper on the Furioso is B. Reynolds' "Ariosto in English: Prose or Verse?" Professor Reynolds compares the relative merits of three noted prose translations of the epic poem and of three prominent verse translations.She offers her own verse translations of several stanzas to exemplify her view that the limita- tions of the individual versifier, rather than those of the EngHsh language, are responsible for producing inferior translations.Her point is well contended and her verses are truly representative of the aesthetic experience of the original, although, as she herself concedes, "much is inevitably lost."
Source: Renaissance and Reformation
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2139302101