The relationship between typography and style of heroic poems in the Italian Renaissance

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This research considered changes of the style of Renaissance heroic poem, analyzing the enjambment in the works of Pulci, Ariosto and Tasso. They used the verse of 11 syllables (the hendecasyllable). However, a sentence often straddled the next line, breaking the syntactic unit by the end of the line. If this division occurs frequently, the smooth flow of verse will be disturbed and an understanding of the heroic poem by hearing will often become difficult. By investigating the frequency of appearance of this phenomenon, this research evaluated the differences of the style.