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work_gkz7ucesfjhfriqrnx6s2bljby	Madison U. Sowell	The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso. Andrea Moudarres. The Early Modern Exchange. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2019. xii + 250 pp. $35	2020	2	.pdf	application/pdf	941	62	61	Renaissance literature but also historians of the late Middle Ages and the early modern The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso. Yale, Mourdarres took on the task of writing authoritatively not only about four eminent Italian epic poets (Dante, Pulci, Ariosto, and Tasso) but also about the influence of Homer, Lucan, and Virgil on the Italian epic tradition as it relates to images of hostility. Begun as a doctoral dissertation, The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic has evolved into an introduction, four well-researched and well-argued chapters, and an epilogue. cosmopolitanism: "all forms of hostility—even those conventionally considered external, such as the conflicts between Christian and Islamic forces in the Middle Ages and dissent between Islam and Christianity throughout the Middle Ages" (17). The third chapter, "The Enemy as the Self: Madness and Tyranny in The final chapter, "The Geography of the Enemy: Christian and Islamic Empires from https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core	./cache/work_gkz7ucesfjhfriqrnx6s2bljby.pdf	./txt/work_gkz7ucesfjhfriqrnx6s2bljby.txt