"Ariosto" redirects here. For the former member of the United States House of Representatives, see Ariosto A. Wiley.
Ludovico Ariosto
Ariosto, detail of votive painting Madonna with Saints Joseph, John, Catherine, Louis of Toulouse and Lodovico Ariosto by Vincenzo Catena, 1512
Born
8 September 1474 Reggio Emilia, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
Died
6 July 1533 (aged 58) Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
Occupation
Poet
Language
Italian
Nationality
Italian
Period
Renaissance
Genre
Epic poetry
Subject
Chivalry
Literary movement
Renaissance literature
Notable works
Satire, Commedie Orlando Furioso
Signature
Ludovico Ariosto (Italian:[ludoˈviːkoaˈrjɔsto,-ariˈɔsto]; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. The poem is transformed into a satire of the chivalric tradition.[1] Ariosto composed the poem in the ottava rima rhyme scheme and introduced narrative commentary throughout the work.
Ariosto also coined the term "humanism" (in Italian, umanesimo)[2] for choosing to focus upon the strengths and potential of humanity, rather than only upon its role as subordinate to God. This led to Renaissance humanism.
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^"Humanist". Etymology Online. 1580s, 'student of the classical humanities', from Middle French humaniste (16c.), formed on model of Italian umanista 'student of human affairs or human nature', coined by Italian poet Lodovicio Ariosto (1474–1533), from Latin humanus 'human' (see human; also see humanism). Philosophical sense is from 1903.
LudovicoAriosto (Italian: [ludoˈviːko aˈrjɔsto, - ariˈɔsto]; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the...
fuˈrjoːzo, -so]; The Frenzy of Orlando) is an Italian epic poem by LudovicoAriosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version...
Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo, and Orlando Furioso by LudovicoAriosto. When first introduced, Duke Astolfo is trapped in the form of a myrtle...
GUICCIARDINI" (in Italian). 27 October 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2022. "ARIOSTO, Ludovico" (in Italian). Retrieved 1 July 2022. ""Prose della volgar lingua"...
Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by LudovicoAriosto. Since the poems exerted a wide influence on later culture, she became...
of a horse. It was invented at the beginning of the 16th century by LudovicoAriosto in his Orlando Furioso. Within the poem, the hippogriff is a steed...
Ferrara, it houses: Anatomical Theater of Ferrara Sala Ariosto—mausoleum of the writer LudovicoAriosto Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea—a historical library and...
Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso (by Matteo Maria Boiardo and LudovicoAriosto respectively), are even further detached from history than the earlier...
resurgence of verse during the high Renaissance in the oeuvres of LudovicoAriosto, Torquato Tasso, and Edmund Spenser. In Old Norse, they are the prose...
the same sort of creature. An early example of an orco appears in LudovicoAriosto's Orlando Furioso (1516), as a bestial, blind, tusk-faced monster inspired...
equivalent is Ludovica. Ludovico D'Aragona (1876–1961), Italian socialist politician LudovicoAriosto (1474–1533), Italian poet Ludovico Avio (1932–1996), Argentine...
Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by LudovicoAriosto. Saracen king of the Tartars and emperor of Mongolia, Mandricardo is...
lamentations in the eerie trees. In Canto XXXIII of Orlando Furioso, author LudovicoAriosto has the Christian Ethiopian Emperor Senapo (Prester John) afflicted...
Emperor Hugo. The Italian Renaissance authors Matteo Maria Boiardo and LudovicoAriosto, whose works were once as widely read and respected as William Shakespeare's...
witticisms have been attributed, some copied from Italian sources like LudovicoAriosto. Ferrial was born in France in 1479. In unknown circumstances, Ferrial...
altered for better conformity, the story was originally taken from LudovicoAriosto's Orlando furioso (like those of the Handel operas Orlando and Ariodante)...
Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by LudovicoAriosto. In the tales, he was portrayed as physically invulnerable except at...
well known survival is in the Italian epics by Matteo Maria Boiardo, LudovicoAriosto, and a number of lesser authors who worked the material; their tales...
Literature (2nd ed.). New York: AMS Press. p. 80. ISBN 0-404-05451-X. [1] LudovicoAriosto - Opere minori (tomo I) "Non tardar amato bene," left incomplete by...
works (Fazio degli Uberti, 14th century; Luigi Pulci, 15th century; LudovicoAriosto, 15th–16th centuries) and has even older cognates with the Latin orcus...
Italian writer, Francesco Guicciardini, held the same position. In 1474, LudovicoAriosto, author of Orlando Furioso, was born in the Malaguzzi palace, near...
stories of the Paladins especially the epic poem Orlando Furioso by LudovicoAriosto. The film was generally panned by critics, but appreciated on its visual...
Florence, with a libretto by Ferdinando Saracinelli [it] based on LudovicoAriosto's Orlando Furioso. It is the first opera written by a woman and was...
composition of Mankind 1492 Juan del Encina – Triunfo de la fama 1493 LudovicoAriosto – La tragedia di Tisbe [it] c.1497 Henry Medwall – Fulgens and Lucrece...
William Oughtred Luca Pacioli Robert Recorde Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia LudovicoAriosto Martin Bauzer Luís de Camões Baldassare Castiglione Miguel de Cervantes...
Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by LudovicoAriosto. He is a Saracen king from Africa. The character appears in the Historia...
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