. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . ITALIAN LITERATURE. Pe;riod II.—1400-1550. .. HH fifteentli century produced two Italian poets^ ^ . of romance, the sportive Pulci and the serious Boiardo. They were inferior in genius not onlyto their path-breaking predecessors, Dante andPetrarch, but also to their romantic successors,Ariosto and Tasso. Yet they served to preserve thesuccession and tradition of heroic poetry. Their fame rests ontheir revival of the mythical stories of Charlemagne and hisPeers. Though that great Prankish monarch had v/agedsuccessf
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . ITALIAN LITERATURE. Pe;riod II.—1400-1550. .. HH fifteentli century produced two Italian poets^ ^ . of romance, the sportive Pulci and the serious Boiardo. They were inferior in genius not onlyto their path-breaking predecessors, Dante andPetrarch, but also to their romantic successors,Ariosto and Tasso. Yet they served to preserve thesuccession and tradition of heroic poetry. Their fame rests ontheir revival of the mythical stories of Charlemagne and hisPeers. Though that great Prankish monarch had v/agedsuccessful war with the Saxons and had been solemnly crownedemperor at Rome, it was his expedition into Spain that, inspite of its disastrous issue, became a favorite with the medi-aeval romancers. The underlying reason probably was thatwar with the Moors implied and suggested the sentimentsprevalent throughout Europe in the age of the most famous poem of this cycle was the Chanson deRoland. * In the revised version, which was accepted andexpanded in Italy, the hero wa
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