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Torquato Tasso. Aminta.

Publication: Italica
Publication Date: 22-SEP-02
Format: Online - approximately 783 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Torquato Tasso. Aminta.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Ed. and trans. Charles Jemingan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. New York: Italica, 2000.

When Tasso wrote his Aminta he had no doubt that he had created a new pastoral genre. In the Renaissance the pastoral form (and its origin identifiable in the idylls and eclogues of Theocritus and Vergil), was used widely. Its tradition is by now familiar. One thinks of Boccaccio's Ameto, Poliziano's Favola di Orfeo, Guarino's Pastor fido, and Sannazaro's Arcadia. The impact of this mode throughout Europe was deep and in their "Introduction" to the present translation Charles Jerningan and Irene Marchegiani Jones appropriately do refer to its European popularity.

The novelty of Tasso's pastoral experiment lies in his ability to pull together...

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