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Delay the War But Not the Sex: Boiardo on Action and Time
- Arthuriana
- Scriptorium Press
- Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2011
- pp. 97-109
- 10.1353/art.2011.0010
- Article
- Additional Information
Matteo Maria Boiardo developed two contrasting experiences of time, one pertinent to war, the other to personal relationships. Where the martial sequences of the Orlando Innamorato develop in linear chronology, its romantic sequences move in asynchronous fashion, sometimes forward, sometimes backward, but always indeterminate. Delay is often necessary in war but usually useless in love.