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Podcast: The Italian Radio Hour
Episode: From Sicily to New York: The Paladins of France Come to Life
Description: This week on The Italian Radio Hour - What happens when Renaissance epic poetry leaves the page and begins to sing?What if the knights of Charlemagne had never left us — but simply changed stages?In this episode of The Italian Radio Hour, we travel from Renaissance courts to Sicilian puppet theaters, from the Apennine mountains to immigrant New York, guided by the luminous scholarship of Jo Ann Cavallo of Columbia University.Through the poetry of Matteo Maria Boiardo, Ludovico Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso, we discover how epic stories of love, madness, betrayal, and redemption still live — not as reli...