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antefact

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an´te`fact` (ăn`tė`făkt`)

n.

1.

Something done before another act.

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Ariosto rakes up hints from Boiardo to write the antefact of Lucina's danger as a variation on Odysseus's encounter with Polyphemus: Boiardo's Orco has no eyes, as against one (3.

Ariosto and the "Fier Pastor": Form and History in Orlando Furioso by ASCOLI, ALBERT RUSSELL / Renaissance Quarterly

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