antefact

an´te`fact`

(ăn`tė`făkt`)
n. 1. Something done before another act.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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(That episode is, in turn, doubled by the addition of the parallel Olimpia episode in 1532.) Ariosto rakes up hints from Boiardo to write the antefact of Lucina's danger as a variation on Odysseus's encounter with Polyphemus: Boiardo's Orco has no eyes, as against one (3.3.28), and he throws a mountain after his tormentors/victims as they escape by sea (55-58).
Ariosto and the "Fier Pastor": Form and History in Orlando Furioso
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