The romance epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso from public duty to private pleasure - Cavallo, Jo Ann (University of Toronto Press, 2004)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index
General introduction -- pt. 1. An ethics of action -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato, book one (1482-3) : romance -- 3. Orlando Innamorato, book two (1482-3) : history -- 4. Orlando Innamorato, book three (1495) : epic -- pt. 2. Creative information -- 5. Introduction -- 6. Cieco da Ferrara, Il Mambriano (1509) -- 7. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516) : didactic allegory -- 8. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516) : novellas of civic virtue -- 9. Ariosto, Cinque canti (composed c. 1519-21) -- 10. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1532) -- pt. 3. The triumph of romance -- 11. Introduction -- 12. Trissino, L'Italia liberata da' Goti (1547-8) -- 13. Bernardo Tasso, L'Amadigi (1560) -- 14. Torquato Tasso, Il Rinaldo (1562) -- 15. Torquato Tasso, La Gerusalemme Liberata (1581) -- Conclusion