Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance Book

	Acknowledgments	11
	Introduction: Sources of Compromise	15
Ch. 1	Compromising Criticism	31
	"Renovate This Poet's Tomb!"	31
	From Positivism to Intertexuality	32
	A Disposition for Compromise in the Renaissance	46
Ch. 2	Radical Neoclassicism in Orlando Innamorato	55
	At the Source: "Limpida e Larga Vena" or "Torbidi Torrenti"?	55
	The Education of a Poet in Renaissance Ferrara	59
	Herodotus: Accept This Greek	65
	The Phantom of Vergil's Narrative	77
Ch. 3	Narrative Choices in Orlando Furioso	91
	Ariosto's Narrative Opportunism	91
	Interlaced Classics	96
	Choosing Ovid	109
Ch. 4	The Misshapen Beast: The Furioso's Serpentine Narrative	123
	Tasso: Dante: Ariosto	123
	Similes of the Snake and Metaphors of Narrative Poiesis	129
	Ariosto: Quel Grandissimo Poeta: Un Dracone	139
Ch. 5	Tasso's Allegory of the Source in Gerusalemme Liberata	142
	Sources and the Drought	142
	Poetic Allegories	152
	Revising Humanistic Allegory in the Conquistata	164
	Conclusion - Ivy: Column: Romance: Epic	170
	Notes	174
	Bibliography	209
	Index	239