The Orlando Of Ariosto

Author : Mario Casari,Monica Preti,Michael Wyatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674278798

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Ariosto and the Arabs by Mario Casari,Monica Preti,Michael Wyatt Pdf

Among the most dynamic and influential literary texts of the European sixteenth century, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532) emerged from a world whose horizons were rapidly changing. The poem is a prism through which to examine various links in the chain of interactions that characterized the Mediterranean region from late antiquity through the medieval period into early modernity and beyond. Ariosto and the Arabs takes as its point of departure Jorge Luis Borges's celebrated short poem "Ariosto y los Arabes" (1960), wherein the Furioso acts as the hinge of a past and future literary culture circulating between Europe and the Middle East. The Muslim "Saracen"--protagonist of both historical conflict and cultural exchange--represents the essential "Other" in Ariosto's work, but Orlando Furioso also engages with the wider network of linguistic, political, and faith communities that defined the Mediterranean basin of its time. The sixteen contributions assembled here, produced by a diverse group of scholars who work on Europe, Africa, and Asia, encompass several intertwined areas of analysis--philology, religious and social history, cartography, material and figurative arts, and performance--to shed new light on the relational systems generated by and illustrative of Ariosto's great poem.

Author : Lodovico Ariosto
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 1850 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781775414889

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Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto Pdf

Orlando Furioso ("The Frenzy of Orlando", more literally "Mad Orlando") is an Italian romantic epic by Ludovico Ariosto, published in its complete form in 1532 and exerting a wide influence on later culture. It is a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's unfinished romance Orlando Innamorato ("Orlando in Love"). From the backdrop of war between Charlemagne and his Christian paladins, and the Saracen army attempting to invade Europe, the poem wanders at will from Japan to the Hebrides, and includes many fantastical elements, such as a trip to the moon and an array of fantastical creatures including a gigantic sea monster and the hippogriff. Many themes are interwoven in its complicated, episodic structure, the most important being the paladin Orlando's unrequited love for the pagan princess Angelica, which develops into the madness of the title. At 38,736 lines, Ariosto's work is one of the longest poems in European literature.

Author : E. W. Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107634954

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The Orlando Furioso and its Predecessor by E. W. Edwards Pdf

Originally published in 1924, this book examines the epic poem Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto and its predecessor, the Orlando Innamorato of Matteo Maria Boiardo. Edwards grounds the poems in the romantic tradition and gives a brief biography of each author before assessing both and the ways in which they interact, as well as their impact on contemporary English literature. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Italian epic poetry.

Author : Lodovico Ariosto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Epic poetry, Italian
ISBN : NWU:35556008071664

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The Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto by Lodovico Ariosto Pdf

Author : Lodovico Ariosto,Sir John Harington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:220462873

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Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse, 1591 by Lodovico Ariosto,Sir John Harington Pdf

Author : Gustave Doré
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486141015

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Doré's Illustrations for Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" by Gustave Doré Pdf

Great 19th-century illustrator's last major achievement: 208 brooding, surreal illustrations of magnificent, influential Renaissance epic poem. Jousting knights, damsels in distress, and grotesque monsters come to life under Doré's exuberant pen style.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600073796

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Tales from [the Orlando furioso of] Ariosto, retold for children, by a lady by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ita Mac Carthy
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781905886616

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Women and the Making of Poetry in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso by Ita Mac Carthy Pdf

This book examines the representation of women in the Orlando furioso and the making of a poem that both curses and blesses them.

Author : Lodovico Ariosto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1390221952

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The Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto by Lodovico Ariosto Pdf

Author : Ludovico Ariosto
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732666102

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Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto

Author : Valeria Finucci
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822322951

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Renaissance Transactions by Valeria Finucci Pdf

Edited collection discusses the first historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature, which focused on two 16th century works: ORLANDO FURIOSO and GERUSALEMME LIBERATA.

Author : Lodovico Ariosto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Roland (Legendary character)
ISBN : IOWA:31858019991961

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The Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto Pdf

Author : Lodovico Ariosto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4048626

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The Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto Pdf

Author : Ludovico Ariosto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1770832955

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Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto Pdf

Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando, more literally Mad Orlando; in Italian furioso is seldom capitalized) is an Italian romantic epic by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its complete form until 1532. Orlando Furioso is a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's unfinished romance Orlando Innamorato ("Orlando in Love," published posthumously in 1495). The action takes place against the background of the war between, on the one side, Charlemagne and his Christian paladins, and, on the other side, the Saracen army which is attempting to invade Europe. However, Ariosto has little concern for historical or geographical accuracy, and the poem wanders at will from Japan to the Hebrides, as well as including many fantastical and magical elements, such as a trip to the moon and an array of fantastical creatures including a gigantic sea monster called the orc and the hippogriff. Many themes are interwoven in its complicated, episodic structure, but the most important plot is the paladin Orlando's unrequited love for the pagan princess Angelica, which develops into the madness of the title. After this comes the love between the female Christian warrior Bradamante and the Saracen Ruggiero, who are supposed to be the ancestors of Ariosto's patrons, the d'Este family of Ferrara. The poem is divided into forty-six cantos, each containing a variable number of eight-line stanzas in ottava rima (a rhyme scheme of abababcc). Ottava rima had been used in previous Italian romantic epics, including Luigi Pulci's Morgante and Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato. Ariosto's work is 38,736 lines long in total, making it one of the longest poems in European literature.

Author : Matteo Maria Boiardo
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1932559019

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Orlando in Love by Matteo Maria Boiardo Pdf

Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit of "the fairest of her Sex, Angelica" (in Milton's terms) through a fairyland that combines the military valors of Charlemagne's knights and their famous horses with the enchantments of King Arthur's court. Today it seems more than ever appropriate to offer a new, unabridged edition of Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, the first Renaissance epic about the common customs of, and the conflicts between, Christian Europe and Islam. Having extensively revised his earlier translation for general readers, Charles Ross has added headings and helpful summaries to Boiardo's cantos. Tenses have been regularized, and terms of gender and religion have been updated, but not so much as to block the reader's encounter with how Boiardo once viewed the world. Charles Stanley Ross has degrees from Harvard College and the University of Chicago and teaches English and comparative literature at Purdue University. "Neglect of Italian romances robs us of a whole species of pleasure and narrows our very conception of literature. It is as if a man left out Homer, or Elizabethan drama, or the novel. For like these, the romantic epic of Italy is one of the great trophies of the European genius: a genuine kind, not to be replaced by any other, and illustrated by an extremely copious and brilliant production. It is one of the successes, the undisputed achievements." -C. S. Lewis