Criticón (Jan 2012)
De Roncesvalles a Pavía
Abstract
The article focuses on the influence of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso in the Spanish epic of the Golden Age through the poems devoted to the legend of Bernardo del Carpio. This case study will help to establish the historical, social and poetical causes behind the abandonment of chivalric narrative and poetry as epic referent and its replacement by a historicist model. In particular, the article wants to insist on the differences between Italian and Spanish idea of epic attending to their diverse and often conflicting theoretical concerns in order to explain the causes and characteristics of the Spanish epic writing in its political context.
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