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Morgante Maggiore

pulci, popular, saracens and chivalric

MORGANTE MAGGIORE. The

Neither Petrarchism nor classical models were strong enough in their influence on Pulci to alter or to vitiate this humorous attitude toward his subject. The reader willingly re members three salient figures from the