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Italian Literature III: Il Tristano Corsiniano

Italian Literature III: Il Tristano Corsiniano

Allaire, Gloria
Allaire, Gloria

Hardcover

Series: Arthurian Archives, Book 20

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1843843986
ISBN13: 9781843843986
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Feb 19 2015
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Text and facing English translation of a version of the Tristan story from north-east Italy.

The Tristano Corsiniano is preserved in a unique manuscript of the Biblioteca Corsiniana housed at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome (MS 55.K.5; formerly Rossi 2593). Written in a mixture of northeastern Italian dialects, the manuscript was probably copied in the third quarter of the fourteenth century. The contents are a much abbreviated descendent of the noted French prose Roman de Tristan; opening with Dinadan's amusing discoursesand misadventures, the majority of the story concerns the famous three-day Tournament at Loverzep, and concludes with King Arthur and Lancelot visiting Tristan, Yseut and their companions. The manuscript, although not luxurious, is heavily decorated with designs that perfectly reflect the vigorous and spirited narrative style.

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