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Orlando Furioso

Orlando Furioso( )
Author: Ariosto, Lodovico
Ariosto, Ludovico
ISBN:978-1-149-17071-7
Publication Date:Apr 2010
Publisher:Creative Media Partners, LLC
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $32.75
Book Details
Pages:350
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Medieval
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7.44 x 9.69 x 0.73 Inches
Book Weight:1.38 Pounds
Author Biography
Ariosto, Lodovico (Author)
Born in Reggio, Italy, in 1474, Ludovico Ariosto lived most of his life in Ferrara, in northern Italy. He enjoyed the patronage first of Cardinal Ippolito and then of the cardinal's brother, Alfonso, Duke of Este, who had been his inseparable companion in youth.

Aristo composed a mock epic of chivalry titled Orlando Furioso. It appeared in 1516 and 1521 before the definitive edition of 1532. Hegel observed that Ariosto prepared the way for the treatment of chivalry in Cervantes's Don Quixote and Shakespeare's Falstaff in a gently veiled humor. A translation of Orlando Furioso into English heroic verse by Sir John Harrington was published in 1591, but by then Edmund Spenser had already sought to outdo Ariosto's epic in his own Faerie Queene. Walter Scott read a translation by John Hoole in 1783, and Byron drew on it for his Don Juan.

In addition to the mock epic, Ariosto wrote many lyric poems in Latin and Italian, seven satires in terza rima, and five comedies in unrhymed lines of 11 syllables. His satires were read and imitated by Thomas Wyatt. One of his comedies, I suppositi, was translated and adapted into English by George Gascoigne and performed at Gray's Inn in 1566. It provided Shakespeare with much of the content and inspiration for The Taming of the Shrew.

Ariosto died on July 6,1533.

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