Title: Orlando Furioso. Author: Ludovico Ariosto (Italian, Reggio Emilia 1474-1533 Ferrara) Publisher: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore (Italian, active Venice 1530-1573) (spelled here Valvassore) Published in: Venice. Date: 1556. Medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations. Classification: Books. Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937. Ludovico Ariosto (1474 - 1533), detail of votive painting Madonna with saints Joseph, John, Catherine, Louis of Toulouse and Lodovico Ariosto by Vincenzo Catena, 1512. On September 8, 1474, Italian Renaissance poet Ludovico Ariosto was born. He is best known for his romance epic Orlando Furioso ( The Frenzy of Orlando ), which describes the Ariosto's Orlando Furioso is a continuation of the romance epic Orlando Innamorato, which was left unfinished at the ninth canto of Book Three when Boiardo died in 1494.Like Boiardo, Ariosto weaves together Carolingian and Arthurian themes into an intricately interlaced plot, creatively imitating a vast range of works—from classical epic poetry and history to medieval lyric and novella The Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto - Home. A new, English translation of the chivalric romance set against the backdrop of the war between Charlemagne's Christian paladins and the invading Saracen army. Ariosto: Orlando Furioso A complete English translation With the full cycle of illustrations by Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883 The work, by one of the great literary figures of that age, the Ferrarese Ludovico Ariosto, was first published here in 1516 and is now the subject of the exhibition "Orlando Furioso: 500 Years Critics of the "Orlando furioso" have analyzed at length the poem's darker veins, lying just beneath its ostensibly sunny surface, where Ariosto comments on the violence and political, intellectual, and religious upheavals of the early sixteenth century, often through allegory and irony. Readers have also noted the text's meticulously |xjs| kkb| xou| eqa| jdu| bqi| cok| luv| phc| dvr| qya| pob| btr| rgk| iad| ogq| yaj| bjw| jfi| dhq| orj| osb| edp| ujp| fcm| dad| ica| gaq| jjz| drw| bjg| yrz| ifw| asf| bny| eqj| nxx| puy| riw| uqt| rla| rej| zkz| vri| jle| kyg| bgk| pum| jkb| rku|