La tentazione della novella in Bernardo e Torquato Tasso: i casi dell’Amadigi e del Rinaldo

Abstract

The essay examines the use of the novella form in the poems following Ariosto, focusing on Bernardo Tasso’s Amadigi and Torquato Tasso’s Rinaldo . Through the analysis of selected episodes, it shows how the former openly embraces the narrative experiment initiated by Boiardo and Ariosto, while the latter arrives at more compromising solutions, favoring the technique of intercalated storytelling, and occasionally alluding to the novellas of the Inamoramento and the Furioso .