The Roman de Renart is a fundamental building site for those who wish to study and learn about medieval literature in its plurality of aspects: from the history of the production and transmission of texts to their critical and aesthetic interpretation, from the historical, social and intellectual context to the legendary and mythical heritage that seems to date back to a remote age. The reader will find in this book - for the first time in Italian - both an introduction to the knowledge of the most significant parts of this work and a discussion of some of the crucial points in my opinion in its interpretation. For this reason, I have divided the volume into two parts, the first in which the analysis of the texts guides the discourse and provides it with solid anchoring points: these are the first six chapters, in which I focus on some branches in particular, so as to ideally draw a small profile of the eponymous hero, that fox around whose exploits the numerous and anonymous writers have labored, who, in the space of approximately a century, from 1500 to 1505, have given shape and delivered to the memory of French and European literature the genre of zooepic literature. In the textual path I have accompanied the quotations from the originals in Old French with translations into Italian, whenever necessary and in any case with a certain abundance, so that even the reader not initiated to Romance philology would not feel excluded from grasping all the nuances... - [Author]

Language: Italian

ISBN: 978-88-430-3719-3