«Dreaming again on things already dreamed»

Marco Dorigatti is Lecturer in Italian literature at St Hilda’s College and Brasenose College, Oxford. He has authored numerous articles on Boiardo, Ariosto and the chivalric literature of the Renaissance, as well as studies on the modern period and on cinema. He is above all a philologist, and in this capacity he has published the critical edition of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso secondo la princeps del 1516 (2006), and more recently, with Carla Molinari and Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinthio, Note critiche all’Orlando furioso (Classe I 377 e Classe I 406 della BCAFe) (2018). He is a member of Italy’s National Committee for the celebrations of the quincentenary of the publication of Orlando furioso.Maria Pavlova obtained her doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2015, and then held a Joanna Randall MacIver Junior Research Fellowship at St Hugh’s College. In 2018 she joined the University of Warwick as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. Her main research interests lie in late medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, especially the chivalric genre. Her forthcoming monograph, Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto, investigates the multi-faceted figure of the religious Other in Boiardo’s I n amoramento de Orlando, Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, and more generally in the literature and culture of the Italian Renaissance.

• CONTENTS: Daniela Delcorno Branca: L’Orlando furioso e la tradizione romanzesca arturiana – Annalisa Perrotta: Menzogne, verita e Cassandre tra Morgante e Furioso – Elisa Martini: «Diro d’Orlando»: l’evoluzione della figura del conte di Brava tra il Mambriano e il Furioso – Maria Pavlova: Nicolo degli Agostini’s Quinto libro and the 1516 Furioso – Giada Guassardo: Ariosto’s Rime and the 1516 Furioso: Cases of poetic memory – Ida Campeggiani: I frammenti autografi dell’Orlando furioso: un’ipotesi per lo «scrittoio» di Ariosto – Stefano Jossa: L’Orlando furioso nel suo contesto editoriale – Franca Strologo: Trasgressione, travestimento e metamorfosi nel Furioso: intorno alla storia di Ricciardetto e Fiordispina – Maiko Favaro: Ruggiero: un trovatello, ma di famiglia illustre – Anna Klimkiewicz: Dall’errore all’utopia: incontri con l’utopia nell’Orlando furioso – Ambra Anelotti: Il Furioso spiritualizzato – Francesco Lucioli: Mutare, imitare e tradurre «tutte le prime ottave dei canti del Furioso» – Christian Rivoletti: The narrator enters the scene: The Orlando furioso from Voltaire to Fragonard – Marco Dorigatti: The first 500 years of Orlando furioso.