“Holiness Begins with the Hands”: The Moralization of the Chivalric Novel in Francesco Berni’s Rifacimento of the Orlando Innamorato

• Autores: Francesco Brancati
• Localización: Christian Discourses of the Holy and the Sacred from the 15th to the 17th Century / coord. por Teresa Hiergeist, Ismael del Olmo, 2020, ISBN 978-3-631-80081-2, págs. 157-172
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article analyses the ways in which Francesco Berni moralizes the cases of the paladins in the chivalric novel Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo in an evangelical and Christian sense. Berni’s work shows a clear commitment to the innovation and recalibration of the support structures that have characterized the knightly epos of Boiardo’s paladins. Berni’s remake aims to create new principles and values inspired by a practice of purified Christianity, which is hybridized with a refined extension of Boiardo’s ideals and chivalrous courtesy appearing in every octave of the original text.