Orlando furioso

…remembered for his epic poem Orlando furioso (1516), which is generally regarded as the finest expression of the literary tendencies and spiritual attitudes of the Italian Renaissance.

Orlando innamorato (to which Ariosto’s Orlando furioso was conceived as a sequel) glorifies military honour, patriotism, and religion. The poem did not achieve popularity, partly because of its dialectical and erudite language, partly because of the careless construction of the episodes and characters, but chiefly because of its delineation of…

…finest of all Italian epics, Orlando furioso. The ability of the medieval epic and folk traditions to inspire the poets of such sophisticated centres as Florence and Ferrara suggests that, humanist disdain for the Dark Ages notwithstanding, Renaissance Italians did not allow Classicism to cut them off from their medieval…

…innamorato (1483) and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso (1516), are based on this fusion. The serious themes of the Holy Grail and death of Arthur left no mark in Italy. The romantic idealism of Boiardo and Ariosto exploits instead the worldly adventures and the love sentiment of Arthurian prose romance, recounted…

…be found in Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso (1516; “Orlando Mad”; Eng. trans. Orlando Furioso), which incorporated many episodes derived from popular medieval and early Renaissance epics. The poem is in fact a continuation of Boiardo’s Orlando innamorato and takes up all of its interwoven stories where Boiardo left off, but…

…whole of Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando Furioso. The translation, published in 1591, remains one of the finest of the age. Probably at that time he invented the flush lavatory (toilet) and installed one for Queen Elizabeth in her palace at Richmond, Surrey. In 1596, in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (a…

…a female Christian knight in Orlando furioso (1516) by Ludovico Ariosto. Her chaotic romance with the Saracen knight Ruggiero is a major element of the plot.

>Orlando furioso (1532).