Abstract
Governare e arte difficultosa e ardua che se impara per lungo e periglioso esercizio.'I Thus cautions Princess Bernarda, dilettissima figlia of a feudal sovereign and onoratissima consorte of the newly entitled Berlocchio de Cagalanza, whose dowry is the ungovernable county of Tripalle located in a remote stretch of the Tiber Valley. Bernarda's sage pronouncement echoes the chivalric ideals of Arthurian legend, as do the conventional attributes associated with her in the above passages. Yet those exaggerated issima endings betray a tone of mockery. Readers familiar with the outrageous fiction of Italy's prominent comic fabulator Luigi Malerba will take for granted the ironic stance of the narrative voice, but even the uninitiated will find in Bernarda's princessly words themselves-at once substandard and pretentious-a warning against the probability of finding heroic knights wandering in this fiction.
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