Hopeless Love

Boiardo, Ariosto, and Narratives of Queer Female Desire

Mary-Michelle DeCoste

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University of Toronto Press
13 November 2024

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Series: Toronto Italian Studies

Book three of the Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo's epic poem Orlando innamorato (Orlando in Love) was published posthumously in 1494; in 1532, the poet Ludovico Ariosto published his final version of a sequel, Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando). At the end of his poem, Boiardo tells the tale of the princess Fiordispina's unfulfilled desire for the maiden warrior Bradamante, a story that Ariosto retells in the body of his later work.

In Hopeless Love, Mary-Michelle DeCoste examines both versions of the Fiordispina and Bradamante episode using feminist and queer theory. DeCoste then links these treatments of queer female desire to their wider cultural contexts by exploring their antecedents in genres such as medieval romance epic and hagiography and by examining similar tropes in other sixteenth-century romance epics. An important work on a previously overlooked subject, Hopeless Love uncovers the diffusion of queer female desire in Italian literature and promotes a better understanding of sexuality in medieval and Renaissance Europe.

By: Mary-Michelle DeCoste
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781487565176
ISBN 10: 1487565178
Series: Toronto Italian Studies
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 13 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary-Michelle DeCoste is an assistant professor in the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Guelph.

Reviews for Hopeless Love: Boiardo, Ariosto, and Narratives of Queer Female Desire

‘:This slim volume makes a substantial contribution to the study of queer desire in Renaissance literature Hopeless Love is well worth the attention of both scholars and students of Italian renaissance literature, narrative theory, gender and queer studies.’ -- Amyrose McCue Gill * Quaderni D'Italianistica vol 31:02:10 *