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• W2807768342 abstract "Orlando Furioso 2016: Something Old and Something New Jane E. Everson “Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue:” so goes the traditional rhyme about a wedding. In adopting this for my discussion here, let me begin by stressing that it is not my intention to deal with the third and fourth of the “somethings.” There are indeed early printings of the Orlando Furioso on blue paper, and quite a number of incidents in the poem which could be categorised as “blue” at least by the prudish.1 As for the something borrowed, it is sufficient to refer to Rajna’s exhaustive study and the research of those who in more recent times have sought to update, correct and add to the repertory of the sources and borrowings of Ludovico Ariosto in the Orlando Furioso.2 But the first pair, something old and something new, offer more interesting perspectives. Readers and critics of the Orlando Furioso have traditionally considered Ariosto’s poem as marking a striking new development in the genre of the chivalric epic—a position which has derived principally from a reading of the third and final edition of the work (1532) and an emphasis on the contents of the poem. But it may be misleading to start an examination of the extent to which the Furioso was perceived by its first readers [End Page 64] as innovative on the basis of the 1532 edition. By that date Ariosto’s poem was well known, had gone through a number of editions,3 and had attracted dedicated woodcuts in illustration.4 Since the publication of Dorigatti’s edition of the 1516 Furioso, which revived interest in the first version of the poem,5 critics and scholars have devoted attention to comparing and contrasting aspects of the two editions, of 1516 and 1532, considering for example, the treatment of traditional characters and themes between the different editions. The aim of many such studies is to demonstrate the independent validity of the 1516 edition, its status even as a quite separate literary work and one to be evaluated on its own terms. These studies have not altogether neglected the links between the 1516 Furioso and its predecessors in the genre, but they have been almost exclusively concerned with the poet and the contents of his poem.6 I want to approach the issue of the originality or novelty of the first Furioso from a different perspective, that of the historian of early printed books. I shall consider the extent to which Ariosto’s first readers, eagerly awaiting the publication of the Furioso in early 1516, would have considered its material aspect as novel. How much did the physical appearance of the 1516 Furioso present something new, and how much was it rather a continuation of something well established at least as far as printed editions of chivalric romances were concerned? To examine this question, I propose to compare a number of material and paratextual elements of the 1516 Furioso with a selection of chivalric epics printed in Italy in the decades preceding its appearance, broadly in fact the period between the publication of the Inamoramento de Orlando and that of Ariosto’s presumed continuation of the same. I shall look in particular at title pages and frontispiece design, format, page layout and type font, colophon, paratextual elements and illustrations, and importantly, as we shall see, the choice of printer. My discussion will argue essentially on the basis of visual evidence (for obvious reasons). [End Page 65] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Orlando furioso. Ferrara, Giovanni Mazzocchi,1516, frontispiece, c.A1r, with printer’s mark. © The British Library Board, class mark G11061. In the spring of 1516, Ariosto’s continuation of Boiardo’s poem appeared from the printing shop of Giovanni Mazzocchi. The frontispiece (c. A1r) (Figure 1) bears a simple title and the author’s name, above a large printer’s mark, beneath which is the statement: “Cum gratia et privilegio.” Turning over a couple of pages, the potential buyer would have found the first page of text (c. A3r) (Figure 2), with again a simple title, mention of the dedicatee, and then the opening stanzas..." @default.
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