Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance by Moderata Fonte

Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance

Moderata Fonte with Julia Kisacky (Translator)

493 pages first pub 1581 (editions)

fiction poetry challenging slow-paced
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The first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, Floridoro imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristics--dark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceresses--F...

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