RT Book, Whole DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 62227562 LA English T1 The quest for epic : from Ariosto to Tasso A1 Zatti, Sergio,, Looney, Dennis., Hill, Sally., PB University of Toronto Press PP Toronto; Buffalo YR 2006 SN 0802090311 9780802090317 0802093736 9780802093738 AB "Translated here for the first time into English, Sergio Zatti's The Quest for Epic is a selection of studies on the two major poets of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, by one of the most important literary critics writing in Italy today. An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the epic literature of the sixteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.