Ariosto ludovico biography books

I am not the right person to review this. The satires themselves left me cold; the biographical and literary information in the substantial introduction to each satire was very useful and well presented.

I think the satires would be very rewarding for someone with substantial knowledge of Horace and Renaissance Italy. In his introduction to Ariosto Today editor Donald Beecher discusses how Ariosto excelled in the contemporary erudite practice of referring to classical works while experimenting around the edges in extending the scope of a classical work or style. The jacket flap of The Satires says:

Through a persistent, though subtle, comparison of himself with Horace (who served as his alter ego), Ariosto achieved in his Satires a devastating criticism of sixteenth-century Italian society in a condition of ethical, political, and religious disintegration, and he arrived at a full and detailed eva

•

Ludovico Ariosto

Orlando Furioso

4.04 avg rating — 3,950 ratings — published 1516 — 496 editions

Orlando Furioso: Part One (Orlando Furioso, #1)

4.19 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 1516 — 144 editions

Orlando Furioso: Part Two (Orlando Furioso, #2)
by

4.20 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 1516

Satire
by

3.89 avg rating — 74 ratings — 9 editions

La Lena
by

3.25 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1528 — 8 editions

Cinque Canti / Five Cantos (Biblioteca Italiana #8)

4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1545 — 9 editions

Supposes (Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation #33)
by

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1509 — 7 editions

Cassaria

3.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1508 — 18 editions

Orlando Furioso e Cinque canti
by

4.30 avg ratin

•

Ludovico Ariosto

Italian poet (1474–1533)

"Ariosto" redirects here. For the former member of the United States House of Representatives, see Ariosto A. Wiley.

Ludovico Ariosto (, ;^[1][2]Italian:[ludoˈviːkoaˈrjɔsto,-ariˈɔsto]; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romanceepicOrlando 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.^[3] 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)^[4] for choosing to focus upon the strengths and potential of humanity, rather than only upon its role as subordinate to God.