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FLORIDORO
THE OT H E R VO I C E IN E A R LY M O D E R N EUROPE
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FLORIDORO A C h i v a l r i c R o m ance
E d it e d wit h a n I n t r o d u c t i o n b y Valer ia F inucci Tra n s l a t e d b y J u l i a K isacky An n o t a t e d b y Va l e r i a F i n u c c i a nd J ulia Kisacky
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Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo), 1555 – 1592 Valeria Finucci is professor of Italian Studies at Duke University. Among her publications is Giulia Bigolina’s Urania: A Romance, published in the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series by the University of Chicago Press. Julia Kisacky is senior lecturer in Italian at Baylor University. She is the author of Magic in Boiardo and Ariosto. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2006 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2006 Printed in the United States of America 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06
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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25677-1 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25678-8 (paper) ISBN-10: 0-226-25677-4 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0-226-25678-2 (paper) Publication of this volume was supported in part by a subvention from Baylor University College of Arts and Sciences. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Fonte, Moderata, 1555–1592. [Floridoro. English] Floridoro : a chivalric romance / Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) ; introduction by Valeria Finucci ; translated by Julia Kisacky ; annotated by Valeria Finucci and Julia Kisacky. p. cm. — (The other voice in early modern Europe) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-226-25677-4 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-226-25678-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Finucci, Valeria. II. Kisacky, Julia, 1965– II