Charlemagne in Italy: Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures

Edited by Jane E. Everson

List of Illustrations List of contributors General Preface: Charlemagne: A European Icon - Marianne Ailes and Philip E. Bennett Acknowledgements Abbreviations and A Note on Terminology Introduction - Jane E. Everson 1.The First Franco-Italian Vernacular Textual Witnesses of the Charlemagne Epic Tradition in the Italian Peninsula: Hybrid Forms - Claudia Boscolo and Leslie Zarker Morgan 2.The Italian cantari on Charlemagne - Franca Strologo 3.Carlo Magno, Ideal Progenitor of Country and Lineage: The image of Charlemagne in the prose compilations of Andrea da Barberino - Leslie Zarker Morgan 4.Tradition and innovation in the fifteenth century: from anonymous poems to Luigi Pulci's Morgante - Annalisa Perrotta 5.Matteo Maria Boiardo: Inamoramento de Orlando - Maria Pavlova 6.Crisis and continuity at the turn of the century - Jane E. Everson 7.From Emperor to Pawn. Charlemagne in the Orlando Furioso - Stefano Jossa 8.An undying tradition: the afterlife of Charlemagne in Italy - Luca Degl'Innocenti Afterword: Charlemagne in Italy: a never-ending story - Jane E. Everson Bibliography Index of Proper Names