- Acknowledgments
- Editorial Note
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- Introduction: Investigating Landscapes around “Ariosto and the Arabs” [Mario Casari, Monica Preti, and Michael Wyatt]
- I. Textual Contexts: Inside the Furioso
- Ariosto and Arabic: Notes on an Unaccomplished Contiguity—A Prologue [Mario Casari]
- Chivalric Plurilingualism as a Motif in Italian Literature: From the Franco-Italian Tradition to Ariosto [Jacopo Gesiot]
- Orlando furioso: The Saracen Perspective [Maria Pavlova]
- Ariosto’s Religion [Stefano Jossa]
- II. Textual Contexts: Around the Furioso
- Literary Life in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250–1517): A Forgotten Heyday of Arabic Culture [Thomas Bauer]
- From al-Barqā to Albracca: Orlando furioso and the World of the Arabian Nights [Claudia Ott]
- Jews and Judaism in Ariosto’s Literary Production [Fabrizio Lelli]
- “A un giovane Aphrican si donò in tutto”: The Marriage of Africa and India in Ariosto and Camões [Vincent Barletta]
- III. Geographical and Visual Contexts
- “Popul la più parte circonciso”: Ariosto in Ferrara and the Muslim World of His Time [Giovanni Ricci]
- Ariosto, the Arabs, and the Geo-cartographic Culture of the Este Court [Massimo Rossi]
- The Middle Eastern Intellectual and Artistic Context at the Time of Ariosto [Anna Contadini]
- Images of Rodomonte: The Ambiguous Allure of the Enemy in the Furioso and in the Ariostan Figurative Tradition [Vincenzo Farinella]
- Intercultural Threads in the Figurative Legacy of the Orlando furioso: Two Ariostan Plates of Otto Vaenius on the Chastity and Indecency of Women [Monica Preti]
- IV. Performative Contexts
- “And of these things a dream was left behind called ʿAntar”: Arabic Performance Traditions of Heroic Poetry [Dwight F. Reynolds]
- Performing the Medieval Greek Romance from Digenis Akritis to the Erotokritos [Adam J. Goldwyn and Przemysław T. Marciniak]
- Trobar, Cantar, Recitar: Performative Poetics across the Middle Sea—An Epilogue [Michael Wyatt]
- Contributors
- Photo Credits
- Index of Names
I TATTI RESEARCH SERIES
I Tatti Research Series 4
Ariosto and the Arabs
Contexts for the Orlando Furioso
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