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Atlante's Palace: Love-Melancholy and the Form of Romance Atlante's Palace: Love-Melancholy and the Form of Romance
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Dolce error. Orlando's Dream and the Origin of Romance Dolce error. Orlando's Dream and the Origin of Romance
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The Game of Loss: Romance and the Failure to Mourn The Game of Loss: Romance and the Failure to Mourn
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Solvite me: The Transition from Romance Melancholy to Epic Mourning Solvite me: The Transition from Romance Melancholy to Epic Mourning
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Elegiac Epic Elegiac Epic
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Broken Flowers: The End of Romance Broken Flowers: The End of Romance
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3 Solvite me: Epic, Romance, and the Poetics of Melancholy in the Orlando Furioso
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Published:January 2007
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Abstract
This chapter examines Ludovico Ariosto's poem Orlando Furioso and argues that his depiction of its structure is far more deeply engaged than has been recognized with the psychic structure of love-melancholy. Drawing on Petrarch's self-conscious poetic exploration of the atra voluptas of melancholy love in his Canzoniere, it analyzes Ariosto's etiology of Orlando's furor and descent into madness, as well as the phantasmic dolce error (sweet error). The chapter also considers the palace and how it generates the object of desire as a phantasm that lures the lover out of the real world in an increasingly frantic search for what can never be grasped. Orlando's refusal to accept the loss of Angelica results in an obsessive rage that seems to end symbolically only when, through the mediation of Virgil's elegiac sixth eclogue (solvite me), his quest turns toward the accommodation of death. The chapter also focuses on a shift toward epic closure that is signaled by Ariosto's use of the Virgilian topos of the mors immatura, or untimely death of young warriors.
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