The essay aims to explore female cruelty within Boiardo’s poem, focusing on two figures in particular: the fairy Falerina and Origille. While the former has been the subject of analysis, especially in regard to the theme of the fairy garden, critics have paid little attention to Origille so far. The study aims to show how this figure of a cruel lady is constructed by Boiardo, according to the French tradition, as a true villainess beyond redemption. Her perpetual movement clearly embodies, on a narrative level, the deception that characterizes her. She is a tree-woman, capable of making Orlando, who persists in saving her, forgetful; in this, she appears very much akin to the world of the Morganian fairies to whom she is also linked at the level of the plot.
«Ché crudeltà combatte con amore»: Falerina, Origille, and female malevolence in «Inamoramento de Orlando»
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Abstract
The essay aims to explore female cruelty within Boiardo’s poem, focusing on two figures in particular: the fairy Falerina and Origille. While the former has been the subject of analysis, especially in regard to the theme of the fairy garden, critics have paid little attention to Origille so far. The study aims to show how this figure of a cruel lady is constructed by Boiardo, according to the French tradition, as a true villainess beyond redemption. Her perpetual movement clearly embodies, on a narrative level, the deception that characterizes her. She is a tree-woman, capable of making Orlando, who persists in saving her, forgetful; in this, she appears very much akin to the world of the Morganian fairies to whom she is also linked at the level of the plot.
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