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"L'Orlando furioso" (1516) è un poema cavalleresco che racconta le avventure del paladino Orlando, innamorato di Angelica, che impazzisce quando scopre che la sua amata ha una relazione con un altro uomo. L'opera ha una trama molto stratificata che si sviluppa sostanzialmente su tre narrazioni principali: quella militare, costituita dalla guerra tra i paladini, difensori della religione cristiana, e i Saraceni infedeli; quella amorosa, incentrata sulla fuga di Angelica e sulla pazzia di Orlando, e infine quella encomiastica, con cui si lodava la grandezza dei duchi d'Este.

Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri. The first part of Dante's Divine Comedy , the "Inferno" (or "Hell"), begins on the night before Good Friday in the year 1300, "halfway along our life's path". Dante is thirty-five years old, half of the biblical life expectancy of 70, lost in a dark wood, assailed by beasts he cannot evade, and unable to find the straight way to salvation. Conscious that he is ruining himself and that he is falling into a deep place where the sun is silent, Dante is at last rescued by Virgil, and the two of them begin their journey to the underworld.

Most of the great Greek stories and epic tales are initiated over women, which is exactly what happens in the very beginning of The Iliad by Homer. The Trojan War has been waging for nearly a decade, and really erupted when Helen, the wife to Menelaos, was kidnapped and thus launched the "thousand ships" in pursuit of her. This is the reason that the Achaians and the Trojans have been fighting each other for so long. Achilles, who has become hero to the Greeks, is given the present of a slave girl for his excellence in battle.

Lakota was conceived by Bobby Bridger as a "telling of a telling" of the life of the Lakota holy man, Black Elk. Black Elk shared his vision with John Neihardt, Neihardt shared it with the world, and this ballad honors that lineage through music and storytelling.

Protectress is a hybrid poetry-prose novella offering a risky take on the legend of Medusa. With stunning economy of words and a delicate hand, Protectress provokes us to think about the feminist identity and the power of compassion. Listeners who fell deeply for Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey, Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, Madeleine Miller’s Circe, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, Maria Dahvana Headley’s translation of Beowulf, and Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth will find themselves enamoured with Protectress.

Obra cumbre de la literatura argentina y latinoamericana, el Martín Fierro constituye una pieza fundamental para comprender el contexto histórico-social de la vida rural de antaño.Martín Fierro es un extenso poema narrativo escrito por José Hernández que publicado por primera vez en 1872 describe el carácter independiente y sacrificado del hombre de campo.

In this book-length epic poem set in northern Nigeria, Saddiq Dzukogi blends the personal with the mythical, part prayer and part praise song, expanding the griot tradition of Bakandamiya, a poetic form from northern Nigeria popularized by Mamman Shata.

Chef-d’œuvre épique du XVIIe siècle, Le Paradis Perdu de John Milton déploie, en vers amples et solennels, une méditation vertigineuse sur la tentation, le péché et la rédemption. À l’échelle du cosmos comme au cœur de l’âme, la parole poétique scrute la grandeur et la fragilité humaines, entre épreuve, faute et espérance.

رقْمِك الأوّل.. معَ العالمْ.. رِفيعْ صَعْب.. ما تِرْضيك.. غير.. الأوّلَهْ تِشْهد.. الدّنْيا وعَالمْها ..الْوسيعْ أنتَ.. حَلاّل.. الْأمُور.. المُعضِلَهْ قَلْب أبو خالدْ وطنْ ضَمّ الْجِميعْ هذيَ القصّهْ وكلّ المسْألَهْ النّوايا البِيض تبْقى ما تِضيعْ ربّنا إنْ حَبّ عَبْدهْ كَمّلَهْ يا كَفو.. يتْبَع كَفو.. فِكْرِكْ بِديعْ يِخْترِقْ عقْل الْخِصيم.. وْيذْهلِهْ أشْهد إنّك للْوطَن سَدٍّ.. مِنيعْ مِبْهر.. الْعالَم.. وهَذيْ.. مَرْجَلَهْ وأشْهد إنّهْ مِن عَصَى شورِكْ يِضيعْ ما ربَحْ.. غير.. الهَزَلْ.. والْبَلْبلَهْ مِن خُطاك.. القاحِلَهْ تِنْبِتْ.. رِبيعْ أنتَ.. رَحمةْ.. مِن إلهي.. مُرسَلَةْ بِكْ إماراتيْ غَدَتْ عِشْق الجميعْ يا مُهنْدسْهَا.. ورَاعي.. الأوّلَهْ

À l’arrière-saison, un chevalier quitte sa maison, seul, en proie aux pensées. La nature se défait—feuilles, fleurs, odeurs—tout tend à froideur et à neige. À l’écoute d’un propos de vérité, il mesure l’enfance passée, la jeunesse dépensée, l’honneur et la grâce divine. Composé à l’ombre d’un deuil—la mort du duc de Bourgogne, trépassé devant Nancy en Lorraine—ce poème méditatif interroge la gloire qui s’éteint, la vanité des choses et la constance des âmes. Une élégie chevaleresque, grave et sobre, où le temps et la mémoire conduisent vers une ferme résolution.

The year is 878. Young King Alfred struggles to regain his West Saxon kingdom from the invading pagan Danes led by Gormr (aka Guthrum, aka Godrum). His kingdom overrun, Alfred joins Gormr's court disguised as a Welsh gleeman. Gormr consults Alfred as a counselor and wizard, but resists Alfred's attempts to convert him. Meanwhile, Alfred learns that his lady and their children are Gormr's prisoners.

Aeneas ist eine Person sowohl der griechischen als auch der römischen Mythologie. Er entstammt einer Nebenlinie des trojanischen Herrschergeschlechts und ist Sohn des Anchises und der Göttin Aphrodite (röm. Venus). Aeneas gilt als Stammvater der Römer. Seine Geschichte wird erzählt vom römischen Dichter Vergil. Sie ist in lateinischen Versen abgefasst und schlägt eine Brücke zwischen der trojanischen der römischen Sagenwelt.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Seven and God and experience the compelling world of poetry.

Almost all my fiction is war fiction. Action adventure, invasions, countries on the brink of disaster, a man, men, and sometimes women, standing against a tide. Blades flashing, blast rifles set on auto. Lawmen, soldiers, and impossible odds. Characters whose minds ride the edges of insanity.

A fallen knight descends into the Underworld, defiantly challenging Death itself. He confronts nightmares and echoes of his life’s decisions and their consequences, constantly searching for his way back.

Maximilian I. (1459-1519) ist „Held Theuerdank“. Die Geschichte - in frühneuhochdeutscher Sprache - handelt von einer stark allegorisierten Form menschlichen Verhaltens. Theuerdank wird von „drei Erzlastern“ in allerlei Gefahren und Hinterhalte gelockt. Die Hauptmänner „Fürwittig (Übermut), Unfallo (Vermessenheit) und Neidelhart (Neid)“, schützen die „drei Pässe“, durch die Theuerdank reisen muss, um zu Königin Ehrenreich zu gelangen.

Великий шумерский эпос, появившийся на свет несколько тысячелетий назад, передаваемый из уст в уста, а затем выгравированный на камне, кажется настолько далеким от современного человека, насколько это возможно. Однако благодаря прозаическому переложению историка и писателя Анджея Иконникова-Галицкого "Гильгамеш, сын Лугальбанды" превращается из древней недостижимой легенды в близкую, понятную и невероятно увлекательную историю. Иконников-Галицкий подарил этому эпосу новую жизнь, а мы - голос, ведь аудиоверсию прозаического пересказа блестяще исполнил Александр Гаврилин.

«Песнь о Нибелунгах» – один из самых фундаментальных эпосов мировой культуры наряду с «Илиадой», «Одиссеей», «Беовульфом», «Калевалой». Эта знаменитая германская поэма была написана неизвестным средневековым автором более 800 лет назад, но ее великая трагедия и великая красота трогает сердца и сегодня. В центре насыщенного и драматичного сюжета – женитьба героя-драконоборца Зигфрида на бургундской принцессе Кримхильде.

Ion is a very short Platonic dialogue between Socrates and a rhapsode by the name of Ion who specializes in reciting the poetry of Homer. The dialogue explores the nature of poetic and artistic inspiration in a most playful way.

Durante degli Alighieri, usually referred to simply as Dante, was born in Italy, and lived from c. 1265 to c. 1321. He was a major poet during the Middle Ages. He wrote the famous Divine Comedy, which was originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia). The work was later christened Divina by Boccaccio. It is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In the late Middle Ages, the overwhelming majority of poetry was written in Latin, and therefore accessible only to affluent and educated audiences.