Cavallo (Italian, Columbia U.) explores the romance epics of the 15th and 16th centuries within their literary contexts, focusing particularly on questions of c... » 

Cavallo (Italian, Columbia U.) explores the romance epics of the 15th and 16th centuries within their literary contexts, focusing particularly on questions of creative imitation, genre, allegory, ideology, and politics. Engagement rather than indebtedness is the theme as she traces how the poets creatively reworked significant aspects of their pred «