Ariosto
Ariosto refers to Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), the Italian Renaissance poet best known for *Orlando Furioso*, an epic poem of chivalric romance featuring knights, sorcerers, and fantastical adventures.
The work influenced European literature for centuries.
Ariosto's name appears in literary discussions as shorthand for elaborate romantic epic: an Ariosto-like tangle of subplots.
- epicImpressively grand in scope
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- FerraraNorthern Italian city
- ottava rimaInterlocking rhymes, closing couplet
chivalry · romance · stanza · canto · Italian · verse · humanist · court poet
Tudor allegorical poet
- MiltonBaroque English verse master
- ByronTitled Romantic versifier
- mock-heroicSatirizing epic conventions
- romantic epicLarge-scale love narrative
Cervantes · intertextuality · imitation · adaptation · translation · digression · interlace · narrative technique
Official foreign representative
- courtierRoyal household attendant
- governorState's chief executive
- patronageSupporter's financial backing
- ducalOf a high nobleman
commission · autobiography · letters · theater · comedy
Orlando Furioso
- epicImpressively grand in scope
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- FerraraNorthern Italian city
ottava rima · chivalry · romance · stanza · canto · Italian · verse · humanist · court poet · narrative
Spenser
Tudor allegorical poet
- MiltonBaroque English verse master
- ByronTitled Romantic versifier
- mock-heroicSatirizing epic conventions
Cervantes · romantic epic · intertextuality · imitation · adaptation · translation · digression · interlace · narrative technique · irony
diplomat
Official foreign representative
- courtierRoyal household attendant
- governorState's chief executive
- patronageSupporter's financial backing
ducal · commission · autobiography · letters · theater · comedy
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
- Italian LiteratureDante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Dante Alighieri
- epicsIliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, epic poem, Beowulf
- Italian InfluenceRomeo and Juliet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Venice, Verona
- Italian poetsDante, Petrarch, Quasimodo
- Italian Renaissancequattrocento, humanism, Petrarch, Machiavelli, fresco