Turning the tables on romance : Rustichello da Pisa invents a new chivalric table in his Arthurian compilation

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dc.contributor.advisorRaffa, Guy P.
dc.contributor.advisorWojciehowski, Hannah Chapelle, 1957-
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBiow, Douglas
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBirkholz, Daniel
dc.contributor.committeeMemberPsaki, F. Regina
dc.creatorFlorea, Elizabeth Ann
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-6481-0059
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-10T14:16:33Z
dc.date.available2017-10-10T14:16:33Z
dc.date.created2017-08
dc.date.issued2017-09-15
dc.date.submittedAugust 2017
dc.date.updated2017-10-10T14:16:33Z
dc.description.abstractRustichello da Pisa, the thirteenth century Italian compiler of Arthurian romance and later the co-author of Marco Polo’s Milione (1296-1299), is usually only a footnote in the anthologies of Italian Literature. Yet his Arthurian Compilation was still being reproduced over four hundred years after his death. In 1272-73 Rustichello translated or compiled his Arthurian Compilation from a book (dou livre) in the collection of King Edward I of England. This work is the first known Arthurian prose romance written by an Italian in the literary language known as Franco-Italian. The Compilation begins with Rustichello’s original episodes of Branor le Brun and then proceeds to extrapolate sections of other French romance texts. Yet it is the Branor le Brun episodes, the original story invented by Rustichello, that has pride of place at the beginning of the Compilation. Thus, although Rustichello copied much of his Compilation from other works, he was also an original and innovative author and should be remembered as such. Hence, this dissertation will offer a topical reading of the original episodes of Branor le Brun found in Rustichello da Pisa’s Arthurian Compilation. Furthermore, I will draw out the influence of these original episodes—political, literary, and, in one case, visual—in and beyond Italy.
dc.description.departmentFrench and Italian
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2WP9TP48
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/62075
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectRustichello da Pisa
dc.subjectBranor le Brun
dc.subjectCompilation
dc.subjectEdward I
dc.subjectSt. Floret
dc.titleTurning the tables on romance : Rustichello da Pisa invents a new chivalric table in his Arthurian compilation
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentFrench and Italian
thesis.degree.disciplineItalian Studies
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austin
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy

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