Charlemagne in Italy

The volume focuses on the development of narratives in Italy, from the earliest Franco-Italian tales up to the sixteenth century. It is currently with the production team at Boydell and Brewer and we hope to have a publication date soon.

Ed. Jane E. Everson (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Contents will be as follows:

1.  

   List of Illustrations –[Ch. 3, Ch. 5,Ch 8]

   List of contributors

   General Preface – Marianne Ailes and Philip E. Bennett

   Acknowledgements

   Abreviations and Note on certain terms

3. Introduction – Jane E.Everson
4. 2. The First Franco-Italian Vernacular Textual Witnesses of the Charlemagne Epic Tradition in the Italian Peninsula: Hybrid Forms – Leslie Zarker Morgan and Claudia Boscolo
   4. The Italian cantari on Charlemagne – Franca Strologo
   6. Carlo Magno, Ideal Progenitor of Country and Lineage: The image of Charlemagne in the prose compilations of Andrea da Barberino – Leslie Zarker Morgan
   8. Tradition and innovation in the fifteenth century: from anonymous poems to Luigi Pulci’s Morgante – Annalisa Perrotta
   10. Matteo Maria Boiardo- Innamoramento de Orlando – Maria Pavlova
   12. Crisis and continuity at the turn of the century – Jane E.Everson
   14. From Emperor to Pawn. Charlemagne in the Orlando furioso – Stefano Jossa
   16. An undying tradition: the afterlife of Charlemagne in Italy – Luca degl’Innocenti
   18. Afterword: Charlemagne in Italy – a never-ending story – Jane E.Everson

   Bibliography

   Index of Proper Names