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of the kind. When we consider, that all the Rodomontes have come from Rodomonte and all the coxcombs of the Cinema from Zerbino, son of the king of Scotland, we sum up the whole matter. Zerbino is the prototype of every handsome Valentino just as Rodomonte is that of all grandiloquent heroes and Gradasso that of all braggards. All these types can be found in the Cinema of today.
The spirit of adventure forces Rinaldo to ask if there are any blows to be struck in the defence of honour. What a question ? What Quixotic zeal, one might say. What Cinema hero does not long to strike such blows ?
Cinematic Ariosto.
The wit and comic sense that de Sanctis sees in Anosto's tale of comic incidents in his own life, his ways of relieving the chagrin to which his unruly spirit, bowing under the yoke of service, subjects him, are characteristics which may be found in the poem. They are faithful mirrors of the Renaissance athough they are veiled in fantastic hyperbole and are all the more cinematic on that account.
But it is with a gift of self-sufficiency and absolute seriousness that the poet sticks to his own world, false on the surface but nevertheless humanly true.
It is thus that the creatures of the Cinema appear to us today, fantastic and removed from our world, but none the less alive and real in their own imaginary state.
The poem may seem sceptical and cynical, or at least indifferent to the ethics of life, religious and patriotic, but the perfection of its art, the finish and careful sculpture of its details show that the author's soul is violently passionate.
The world of chivalry swept clear of the mist of the middle ages is here lit up by strong daylight, its mysteries, miracles, its shades and dark corners, its superstitions and its terrors are dissipated in order to give Relief to the subject.
And there is a truly Italian conception of art. A great artist of fertile imagination, this creator of the first scenario flooded with Latin mediterranean sunshine is the magic evoker of an extraordinary reality, presented as if it were an ever day affair in a calm statement of facts.
This work, unlike those of Cervantes, Berni or Pulci, is not one of