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Ludovico Ariosto, in his epic Orlando Furioso ( 1513 ), jestingly sent his hero to a Moon where everything lost on Earth eventually turns up ; but it was not until Galileo discovered ( 1609 – 1610 ) that the Moon had surface features, and that the other planets could, at least, be resolved into disks, that the concept that the planets were real physical bodies came to be taken seriously.
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** Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto ( 1516 )
Most classical Italian poems are composed of hendecasyllables ; for example, the major works by Dante, Francesco Petrarca, Ludovico Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso.
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Ludovico and epic
The Renaissance literary men and poets Torquato Tasso ( author of Jerusalem Delivered ), Ludovico Ariosto ( author of the romantic epic poem Orlando Furioso ) and Matteo Maria Boiardo ( author of the grandiose poem of chivalry and romance Orlando Innamorato ), lived and worked at the court of Ferrara during the 15th and 16th century.
Orlando Furioso ( The Frenzy of Orlando, more literally Mad Orlando ; in Italian furioso is seldom capitalized ) is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture.
In 1516 Ludovico Ariosto published his epic Orlando Furioso, which deals largely with characters first described in the Song of Roland.
However, poets such as Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso continued to use ottava rima for serious epic poetry.
The plot was originally taken from – but partly altered for better conformity – Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso ( like those of the Handel operas Orlando and Ariodante ), an epic poem set in the time of Charlemagne's wars against Islam.
Bayard also appears in the epic poems on chivalrous subjects by Luigi Pulci, Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto.
Famous vernacular poets of the 15th century include the renaissance epic authors Luigi Pulci ( author of Morgante ), Matteo Maria Boiardo ( Orlando Innamorato ), and Ludovico Ariosto ( Orlando Furioso ).
However, one of the earliest direct references to St. Elmo's fire made in fiction can be found in Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem Orlando furioso ( 1516 ).
; Hippogriff: A creature invented by Ludovico Ariosto in the 16th century in his epic Orlando Furioso, based on an expression of Virgil's denoting the impossible, " to cross griffons with horses "; the griffon above being a cross between a lion and an eagle believed by Virgil's commentator Servius to loathe horses.
In The Castle of Iron, the authors ' protagonist Harold Shea visits two such worlds, first ( briefly ) that of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan and second that of Ludovico Ariosto's epic, the Orlando Furioso.
After they have all languished there for a time, Shea and Polacek are pulled away from this world as well and into that represented by Ludovico Ariosto's epic, the Orlando Furioso.
* One of the earliest fictional flights to the Moon took place on the pages of Ludovico Ariosto's well-known Italian romantic epic " Orlando furioso " ( 1516 ).
While Astolfo's name appeared in Old French chansons de geste, his first major appearance was in the anonymous early fourteenth-century Franco-Venetian epic poem La Prise de Pampelune He was subsequently a major character ( typically humorous ) in Italian Renaissance romance epics, such as Morgante by Luigi Pulci, Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.
Of similar tone and content ( albeit in verse ), the Italian epic poems Roland amoureux ( Orlando Innamorato ) by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Roland furieux ( Orlando furioso ) by Ludovico Ariosto ( and, at the end of the century, Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered ) were also enormous successes ( French translations of these works were often in prose ).
Ludovico and Orlando
According to Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso it once belonged to Hector of Troy, and was given to Roland by Malagigi ( Maugris ).
In Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, the net is stolen 3, 000 years later by Caligorant, who goes on to destroy the temple and the city.
Roger Freeing Angelica, 1819, oil on canvas, 147 x 190 cm, Louvre, portrays an episode from Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto's poem, Orlando furioso ( 1516 ) contains an early description ( canto IV ):
* In Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, a continuation of Boiardo's poem, Astyanax is saved from Odysseus by Hector ( 36. 70 ) who substitutes another baby.
An early example of an orco appears in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, as a bestial, blind, tusk-faced monster inspired by the Cyclops of the Odyssey ; this orco should not be confused with the orca, a sea-monster also appearing in Ariosto.
From the fifteenth century onwards, he appears as a central character in a sequence of Italian verse romances ( as " Orlando "), including Morgante by Luigi Pulci, Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo, and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.
Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp took the protagonist of the Harold Shea series through the worlds of Norse myth, Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and the Kalevala — without ever quite settling whether writers created these parallel worlds by writing these works, or received impressions from the worlds and wrote them down.
Morgante ( c. 1483 ) by Luigi Pulci, Orlando innamorato ( 1495 ) by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando furioso ( 1516 ) by Ludovico Ariosto, and Jerusalem Delivered ( 1581 ) by Torquato Tasso are all indebted to the French narrative material ( the Pulci, Boiardo and Ariosto poems are founded on the legends of the paladins of Charlemagne, and particularly, of Roland, translated as " Orlando ").
* Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
Renaud, as Rinaldo, is an important character in Italian Renaissance epics, including Morgante by Luigi Pulci, Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.
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