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Online sinds
28 mei 2018
EAN
9780674025219
Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Aantal pagina's
416 pagina's

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Teofilo Folengo (1491-1544) was born in Mantua and joined the Benedictine order, but became a runaway monk and a satirist of monasticism. In 1517, he published, under the pseudonym Merlin Cocaio, the first version of his macaronic narrative poem Baldo , later enlarged and elaborated. It blended Latin with various Italian dialects in hexameter verse, inventing a deliberately droll language whose humour depends on the mixture of high and low tonalities. An important example of the mock-heroic epic, the work was a model for Rabelais and was frequently reprinted. Baldo, the hero of these picaresque adventures, is a descendant of French royalty who starts out as something of a juvenile delinquent. The poem narrates episodes which include imprisonment; battles with local authorities, pirates, shepherds, witches, and demons; and a journey to the underworld. Throughout, Baldo is accompanied by various companions, among them a giant, a centaur, a magician, and his best friend Cingar, a wickedly inventive trickster ( practicus ad beffas ). This edition provides the first English translation of this hilarious send-up of ancient epic and Renaissance chivalric romance.

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Artikelnummer
2532380
Online sinds
28 mei 2018
EAN
9780674025219

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Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Aantal pagina's
416 pagina's

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Verschijningsdatum
mei 2007