Genealogies of Fiction: Women Warriors and the Medieval Imagination in the "Orlando furioso"

Index

Adam (biblical character), 100, 102 Adonio (Furioso character), 144 Aeneas (Aeneid character): character and plot, 105; dynastic knowledge and gender reversal, 119; fame and fraudulence, 130–31, 132; patrilineal genealogy of, 116; as ungrateful man example, 95, 106; wedding, 114, 150 Aeneid (Virgil): astrologer themes, 213n13; betrayal model, 138; Christianization of, 184n27; dynastic knowledge, 119, 136; fame and fraudulence models, 130–31, 132; foreign brides, 155; Lidia episode models, 104–6, 114; patrilineal genealogies, 116; prophecy and gender reversal, 136; ungrateful men examples, 95, 106; wedding addition, 150 Agolante (Aquilante e Formosa character), 70 Agolante (Aspramonte character), 35 Aigiaruc/Agiarne (Devisement du monde/Milione character), 47– 48, 49, 53 Alardo (Historia di Bradiamonte character), 22 Alberti, Leon Battista, 150, 183n18 Albiera (daughter of king of Norbelanda) (Palamedès/Febus character), 99, 100, 101, 102–3 Alceste (Furioso character), 95–96, 97–98, 104, 106, 109–12 Alessandra (Furioso character), 78 Alessandria (Amazonian kingdom), 59, 73–74, 75, 76, 77–78 Alexander VI, Pope (Rodrigo Borgia), 154 Alfeo (Furioso character), 213n13 Alfonso I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara: family conspiracies involving, 182n10; marriage/weddings, 1, 149; wedding orations written for, 5, 150, 154–59 Alfonso of Aragon, 154 alliance: in classical literary traditions, 89; marriage, 14–15, 40–41, 47–49, 56, 89, 106, 157–58; warrior women rejections of, 25, 28, 32–33, 38, 40, 41–42, 48, 49; women’s roles in, 40, 56–57, 172 Almansor (Historia di Bradiamonte character), 26, 27, 28–29, 31, 32, 34 Almonte (Aspramonte character), 35–37, 38 Alopa, Laurentius de, 74 Altieri, Marco Antonio, 158–59 Álvares, Francisco, 70 Amata (Aeneid character), 105, 114 Amazonida (Stagi), 61, 64–65, 77–78, 79 Amazons: character construction and descriptions, 49, 59, 70–71, i n de x Italicized page references refer to illustrations. 256 Index art, and Amazonian imagery, 61–63, 62, 63, 64 Artemia (Furioso character), 78–79 Arthur, King (Tavola ritonda character), 165 Ascoli, Albert Russell, 9, 32, 128, 202n7, 212n10 Aspramonte (Andrea da Barberino): character models, 34, 71; in Italian bookshop inventories, 65; marriage by duel model, 35–43 Aspramonte cycle, 34, 39, 71 Astolfo (Danese character), 42 Astolfo (Furioso character), 91–98, 130–31, 212n11 Astore (Tavola ritonda character), 168–69 astrologers, 213n13 Atalanta (Metamorphoses character), 25–26, 29–32, 33, 43, 44, 45 Atlante (Furioso character), 120–21 Augustine, Saint, 151 avarice themes, 96, 120, 142 Bakhtin, Mikail M., 149 Barbaro, Francesco, 150 Barberino, Andrea da, 190–91n42. See also Aspramonte (Andrea da Barberino) Baskins, Cristelle, 71 Bassi, Pier Andrea de’, 70 Beatrice (Furioso character), 96, 108, 114 Beatrice d’Este, Duchess of Milan, 160 beauty: as cause of violence, 146; courage and prowess vs., 26–27, 60; identity and custom of the castle tradition, 164–66, 167– 68; as marriage oration debate subject, 157–58; as negotiation trait, 103, 106–7; as object of desire trait, 26, 46, 54, 84, 85, 166; passivity of, 166 Beer, Marina, 182n15 bees, 138–39, 139, 144–45 Belisandra (Inamoramento de Carlo Magno character), 52–53 81–87, 195n82; classical models for, 73–74, 75–76; cultural context of, 59, 71; Este dynasty and genealogical connections to, 70; Furioso plot combinations with, 75; kingdoms and society foundations, 66–69, 73–78; laws and cultural practices of, 58, 59, 77–81, 87; popularity and use as subject, 61–66, 62, 63, 64, 68–70, 201n49; themes represented by, 61, 71, 76, 81, 86–87 Amone/Aymon (Furioso character): offspring of, 22–23, 29, 41, 72; wedding opposition, 96–97, 107, 108 Anaxarete (Metamorphoses character), 94–95, 101, 110 Anchises (Aeneid character), 116, 136 Ancroia (Ancroia character), 191–92n51 Andrea da Barberino, 190–91n42. See also Aspramonte (Andrea da Barberino) Anfrosina (Inamoramento de Carlo Magno character), 54, 55 Angelica (Furioso character), 14, 147–48 Anna, Duchess of Ferrara, 149 Annales Ferrariae (Prisciani), 3, 202n8 antiqui amori, 86 Api, Le (Rucellai), 145 “A Pio Rajna” (Montale), 175–76 Apollonius Rhodius, 74, 75 Aquila, 208n48 Aquilante (Danese character), 41, 42 Aquilante e Formosa, 70–71, 214n27 Argonautica (Apollonius Rhodius), 74, 75 Ariosto, Ludovico: feminist view of, 7, 131–32, 133–34, 211n9; historical context, 1; marriage commentaries, 153–54; wedding orations written by, 5, 150, 154– 59. See also Orlando Furioso and related topics 257 Index 72, 188n18; family genealogy and legitimacy, 22–23; gender identity, 162–66; identity conflicts and multiple roles, 24, 60, 172–73; intertextuality of, 21–22; and law interpretation...