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Boiardo

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Bo·iar·do  (boi-ärd, b-yär-), Matteo Maria 1440?-1494.
Italian lyric poet known for his unfinished romantic epic Orlando Innamorato (1487).
Boiardo (Italian) [boˈjardo]
n
(Biographies / Boiardo, Matteo Maria (1434-1494) M, Italian, WRITING: poet) Matteo Maria (matˈtɛːo maˈria), conte de Scandiano. 1434- -94, Italian poet; author of the historical epic Orlando Innamorato (1487)


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To define one line of pre-Bembo Petrarchismo, Pantano has run a wire from Petrarch's last circle to Tito Vespasiano Strozzi and his more famous nephew, Matteo Maria Boiardo, hanging on it along the way every shred of evidence he could find to establish Ferrarese connections with the master canzoniere.
La fonte di ogni eloquenzia: Il canzoniere petrarchesco nella cultura ... by Kirkham, Victoria / Renaissance Quarterly
The interlocutor Feltrino Boiardo begins by asking Leonello what he thought of Feltrino's own vernacular translation of Apuleius's Golden Ass.
Creating canons in fifteenth-century Ferrara: Angelo Decembrio's De ... by Celenza, Christopher S. / Renaissance Quarterly
After a discussion of the gradual emergence of the ottava rima as the exclusive form of the epic genre, Everson turns her attention to Pulci, Boiardo, and Cieco da Ferrara, who began their work when humanist culture had been the prevailing culture in Italy for more than fifty years.
Jane E. Everson. The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism: the ... by Lebano, Edoardo A. / Renaissance Quarterly
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