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Search - Legends Of Charlemagne : Or Romance Of The Middle Ages

Legends Of Charlemagne Or Romance Of The Middle Ages
Author: Thomas Bulfinch

LEGENDS of CHARLEMAGNE ROMANCE OF THE MIDDLE AGES bY THOMAS BULFINCH, - BESIDES the education which schoole n dco llegee impart, there is still another kind necessary to completeness. It is that which has for its object a knowledge of polite literature. In the intercourse of polished society a young person will more frequently need an acquaintan... more »ce with the creations of fancy than with the discoveries of science or the speculations of philosophy. In an age when intellectual darkness enveloped West ern Europe, a constellation of brilliant writers arose in Italy. Of these, Pulci born in 1431, Boiardo 1434, and Ariosto 1474 took for their subjects the romantic fables which had for many ages been transmitted in the lays of bards and the legends of monkish chroniclers. These fables they arranged in order, adorned with the embellishments of fancy, amplified from their own invention, and stamped with immortality. It may safely be asserted, that as long as civilization shall endure, these p oductio wsi ll retain their place among the most cherished creations of human genius. In two previous works, The Age of Fable an The Age of Chivalry, the author of this volume has endeavored to supply to the modern reader such knowledge of the faLles of classical and mediaeval literature as is needed to render intelligible the allusions which occur in reading and conversation. This volume is in tended to carry out the same design. Like its prede zessors, it aspires to a higher character than that of a work of mere amusement. It claims to be useful, in acquainting its readers with the subjects of the works of the great poets of Italy. Some knowledge of these is expected of every well-educated young person. In reading these romances, we cannot fail to observe how the primitive inventions have been used, again and again, by successive generations of fabulists. The Siren of Ulysses is the prototype of the Siren of Orlando, and the character of Circe reappears in Alcina. The fountains of Love and Hatred may be traced to the story of Cupid and Psyche and similar effects produced by a magic draught appear in the tale of Tristram and Iaoude, and, substituting a flower for the draught, iu Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream. There art many other instances of the same kind which the reader will recognize without our assistance. The sources whence we derive these storiee are, first, the ltalian poets named above next, the Romans de Chcvalerie of the Comte de Tressan lastly, certain German collections of popular tales. Some chapters have been borrowed from Leigh Hunts Translations from the Italian Poets. It seemed unnecessary to do orer again what he had already done so well yet, on the other hand, those stories could not be omitted from the eeries without leaving it incompiete -- C O N T E N T S . -- THE PEERS O , B PALADINS . TEE TOURNAMENT . . E SIEGE OF ALBRACCA . . . . ADVENTURES OF RIXALDO A ND ORLANLW . . THE h v s OF o FR ANCE . TBE I x v s r o O F FRANC C E O , N TINUKD . . . BRADAMANT A E X D ROGEBO . ASTOLP A O X D THE ENC ANTEE . E THE ORC . ASTOLPEOB ADVENTUB C E O S N TINUED. AXD IBUEI. LA B K O D O B O . OXtLAlrD0 MAD ZERBINO AND ISABEL . U ASTOLPHO IN ABYSSINIA . IRE WAR IN APBICA . RWBBO AND BRADAMAN . TI . ...

ISBN-13: 9781408615560
ISBN-10: 1408615568
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 406
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