Friday 12 March, 6pm
Ariosto: The Orlando Furioso and English Culture (Oxford University Press 2019)
by Jane Everson, Andrew Hiscock and Stefano Jossa
Chaired by Katia Pizzi
From Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing to John Milton’s Paradise Lost, up to Sir Walter Scott ‘the Ariosto of the North’ in Lord Byron’s definition, and J. K. Rowling, whose hippogriff bears traces of chivalric memory, the Orlando Furioso has proved extremely influential in English culture and literature. Despite being rather neglected both at academic level and in popular awareness, Ariosto’s masterpiece proves useful to our times as a means to explore issues of chaos and order, crossing pathways, desire and illusion, mobility and unobtainability, as well as life’s goals, love, and war – which are the usual ingredients for a contemporary popular fiction. In this volume, Jane E. Everson, Andrew Hiscock, and Stefano Jossa, with several distinguished contributors from the UK, Italy, and the U.S., have explored and assessed Ariosto’s presence in the English-speaking tradition and in our contemporary culture.
Contributions by:
Prof. Jane Everson (Emerita, Royal Holloway University of London)
Prof. Andrew Hiscock (University of Bangor)
Dr. Stefano Jossa (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Prof. Brian Richardson (University of Leeds)
Prof. David Robey (Emeritus, University of Reading)
Prof Jane Tylus (Yale University)
See also:
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/ariosto-cervantes-shakespeare-2016-three-writers-centenary-celebration/
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ariosto-the-orlando-furioso-and-english-culture-9780197266502
Jane Everson is Emeritus Professor of Italian Literature in the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway. Her special areas of expertise is medieval and early modern Italian literature and culture. In 2015 she was Visiting Professor at the University of Padua. She is currently an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London.
Andrew Hiscock is Dean and Professor of Early Modern Literature at Bangor University, Wales, and Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour la Renaissance, l’Âge Classique et les Lumières at Montpellier 3. He has published widely on early modern literature and his contribution to Ariosto, the Orlando furioso and English Culture focuses on the cultural reception of the epic poem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Stefano Jossa is Reader in Italian at Royal Holloway University of London. He has published extensively on the construction of the Italian nation as expressed through literature (L’Italia Letteraria, il Mulino 2006; Un Paese Senza Eroi: L’Italia Da Jacopo Ortis A Montalbano, Laterza 2012; La Più Bella Del Mondo: Perché Amare La Lingua Italiana, Einaudi 2018) and on the literary culture of the Italian Renaissance
Brian Richardson is Emeritus Professor of Italian Language at the University of Leeds. He studied Italian at the universities of Oxford and London. Before moving to Leeds in 1977, he taught at the universities of Strathclyde and Aberdeen. His research has centred on the history of the Italian language and the history of the circulation of texts in the early modern period.
David Robey formerly Professor of Italian at Manchester and Reading Universities. He was joint editor of the Oxford Companion to Italian Literature (translated into Italian as the Enciclopedia della Letteratura Italiana Oxford/Zanichelli), and joint author of Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction and Dante: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012 and 2015), all with Peter Hainsworth.
Jane Tylus is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Italian and Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale. Her previous appointments were at NYU and U. Wisconsin-Madison. She has written on Gaspare Stampa, Catherine of Siena, Tasso, and early modern translation theory, among other topics. Currently she’s working on a book manuscript called Saying Goodby in the Renaissance as well as a set of essays on accompaniment and translation. She is the general editor of the journal I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance.
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