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In Rome, "a novelty for me was the children's theater, that Teatro dei
Piccoli where day after day all winter at five the marionettes entertain an audience of little people with such delightful performances as "Guerin Meschino,"... noted Elizabeth Hazelton Haight,
69:" that appealed to aristocratic audiences and their emulators among the upper bourgeoisie. In a departure from Andrea's other known romances, there are no discernible French or Franco-Venetian sources for this narrative, which unfolds instead in the manner of a
165:, following a battle. Most of the challenges Guerrin faces, however, are moral rather than military, even where the supernatural character of the site is explicitly non-Christian, such as the sanctuary of the Trees of the Sun and Moon. Like
386:. This chivalric romance narrates the myriad adventures of young Guerrino as he wanders through West and East to discover who he is, living through incredible events and searching out oracles, sibyls and prophecies."
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Records of ownership in manuscripts have been traced among prestigious
Florentine families, the Visdomini, Salviati, Viviani, Davanzati, Galli, Benci, Doni, Bardi, Nasi and Orlandini by Allaire2000:244.
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reserve and correctness in the intervening century and a half, are examined in John C. McLucas, "Renaissance
Carolingian: Tullia d'Aragona's Il Meschino, altramente detto il Guerrino",
365:, 2000:243f; "where giants, exotic beasts or even otherworldly journeys occur, he couches them in naturalistic descriptions with real-world textures and dimensions"; the episode in the
646:(Padua: Antenore, 2005), p. 599: "...le prime due edizioni a stampa di Bartholomeo Valdezochio e Baldassarre Azzoguidi videro luce rispettivamente proprio a Padova e a Bologna."
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Cursietti, p. 597: "La seconda edizione, quella bolognese di
Baldassarre Azzoguidi, presenta invece la divisione tradizionale in otto libri e l'articolazione in 282 capitoli."
206:, substituting various Italian circumlocutions: Fata, Fatalcina, Ammaliatrice, Incantatrice, etc. An entire chapter, Book V, in which the Apennine Sibyl describes the other
357:"He consciously eliminated most magical and fantastic elements from his narrations", notes Gloria Allaire, "Portrayal of Muslims in Andrea da Barberino's
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The text in eight chapter-length books circulated widely in manuscript before its first printing, in Padua, in 1473. It was a late contribution to the "
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di Andrea da
Barberino... nell'edizione di Padova, Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho e Martinus de Septem Arboribus, 21 aprile 1473, GW 1643."
131:, "warrior". At the end of his adventures Guerrino discovers that he is the son of Milone, Duke of Durazzo, who was himself the son of a
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The far-ranging episodes create a fictional geography as seen from the
Mediterranean world. Guerrin's enchanted sojourn in the
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Guerrino's search for his lost parents. There is an undercutting element of deconstruction of
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means, "shabby, paltry, ignoble"; the hero, cast away as a babe sold by pirates and rebaptized by his foster father
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is a 1951 Italian film that takes its general tenor from the romance. Guerrin was adapted twice for the
Italian
233:(Venice 1560, 2nd ed. 1594), though the source she acknowledged to the reader was the perhaps more respectable
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in 1512 it had received 21 printings in
Italian. It had staying power, too: the literary Venetian courtesan
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