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Poets and novelists poured forth songs and stories, in which we look in vain for any lament for the discord by which their unhappy country was being rent in pieces. Devoid of a sense of national unity, and each trusting to the power of intrigue to save his own city, they gave themselves up to the jovial indifference, the absorption in sensuous beauty, which they had inherited from Boccaccio. Narrative poetry is the first branch of this literature which claims our attention. There are three prin...cipal mediaeval sources from which poets have drawn their stores of chivalric romance. These are the legends of Arthur, which have been the favourite with Northern poets ; of Amadis of Oaul, which attracted the Spanish and Portu- Digitized by VjOOQIC 76 THE RENAISSANCE guese ; while the imagination of the Italians was held by the stories of Charlemagne and his paladins. It was the Chanson de Boland or Orlando, one of Chariemagne's knights, which furnished material to Pulci, Boiardo, and Boiardo, c.
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