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  Lodovico Ariosto - LoveToKnow 1911
LODOVICO ARIOSTO (1474-1533) Italian poet, was born at Reggio, in Lombardy, on the 8th of September 1474.
Ariosto then boldly said, that if his eminence thought to have bought a slave by assigning him the scanty pension of 75 crowns a year, he was mistaken and might withdraw his boon - which it seems the cardinal did.
That Ariosto was honoured and respected by the first men of his age is a fact; that most of the princes of Italy showed him great partiality is equally true; but it is not less so that their patronage was limited to kind words.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lodovico_Ariosto   (1411 words)

  
 Ludovico Ariosto - MSN Encarta
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), Italian poet, born in Reggio nell’Emilia.
Actually, the poem is a tribute to the patrons of Ariosto, the Este family, and its real hero is Ruggiero d’Este, the legendary founder of the house.
Ariosto’s other works include comedies such as La Lena (The Wind, 1529), as well as odes, satires, and sonnets.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563633/Ludovico_Ariosto.html   (163 words)

  
 LODOVICO ARIOSTO (1474... - Online Information article about LODOVICO ARIOSTO (1474...
Ariosto then boldly said, that if his eminence thought to have bought a slave by assigning him the scanty pension of 75 crowns a See also:
That Ariosto was honoured and respected by the first men of his age is a fact; that most of the princes of See also:
Gardner, Ariosto: the Prince of Court Poets (1906).
encyclopedia.jrank.org /APO_ARN/ARIOSTO_LODOVICO_1474_1533_.html   (2240 words)

  
 Italian Literature -Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) was born on September 8th at Reggio Emilia (a town in North Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region).
Ariosto was going to study Greek as well as Latin, but missed this opportunity when his teacher was sent to France to tutor Francesco Sforza.
After losing his salary of 84 crowns a year, Ariosto was appointed to the province of Garfagnana (a historical region of Italy, today part of Lucca in the Appennines).
www.lifeinitaly.com /culture/ariosto.asp   (397 words)

  
 LitWeb.net
Ariosto's work was the most celebrated narrative poem of the Italian high Renaissance, and the first example of modern poetry to provoke widespread critical controversy.
Ariosto was born in Reggio Emilia, as the son of Count Niccolò Ariosto.
Around 1527 Ariosto secretly married the widow Alessandra Benucci, and spent the last part of his life revising and enlarging Orlando Furioso.
www.litweb.net /biogs/ariosto_ludovico.html   (614 words)

  
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Daniel Javitch's study of Lodovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso is less a work of criticism (loving or otherwise) than a dispassionately historical study of how Ariosto's poem attained the status of a canonical work of literature.
What was extraordinary about Ariosto's poem--and this confirms its universal appeal--is that between 1521 and 1584 it seems to have embodied virtually every one of the particular typographical physiognomies that Venetian publishers had devised for the different kinds of readers who made up their market (pp.
Their arguments to counter the canonical status it had begun to assume was itself evidence of the extent to which the poem had arrived at such a status.
www.sas.upenn.edu /~traister/javitch.html   (2043 words)

  
 Ariosto
Ariosto's work was the most celebrated narrative poem of the Italian high Renaissance.
Ludovico Ariosto was born in Reggio Emilia, as the son of Count Niccolò Ariosto.
Ariosto's invention was that he "sings" the poem to his audience, as a traveling troubadour.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /ariosto.htm   (1222 words)

  
 WowEssays.com - Edmund Spenser Vs. Virgil And Ariosto
Edmund Spenser vs. Virgil and Ariosto Some scholars believe Spenser did not have sufficient education to compose a work with as much complexity as The Faerie Queene, while others are still “extolling him as one of the most learned men of his time” (587).
Another scholar testified that both Ariosto and Spenser did not observe Virgil’s conception of an epic as ‘a unified account of a single hero’s career,’ but instead got lost in their concentrations on wild, unnatural allegories that greatly displeased and ultimately confused the reader (1).
Ariosto is noted for using a formula that reads “Mes a tant laisse li contes a parler de…et retorne a…”(“Now I stop telling the story of…and return to…”)(Fowler 135).
www.wowessays.com /dbase/ac2/tda112.shtml   (1615 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Orlando Furioso: Books: Ludovico Ariosto,G. Waldman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ariosto was one of the giants of Renaissance literature, and this was his footprint.
Ariosto knows his flying horses, invisibility rings, sexy sorceresses and the rest are perfectly absurd, but manages to maintain the fantasy elements as wonderful and exciting, without ever undercutting them with mere cynicism or bathos.
Ariosto's style is immortalized in her translation, complete with his witty asides and satirical commentary.
www.amazon.com /Orlando-Furioso-Lodovico-Ariosto/dp/0192125761   (1977 words)

  
 Lamson Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ariosto’s Bitter Harmony : Crisis And Evasion In The Italian Renaissance
Ludovico Ariosto : A Preface To The Orlando Furioso
Ariosto And Boiardo : The Origins Of Orlando Furioso
www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/related/1159286   (69 words)

  
 Ariosto: Orlando Furioso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ariosto was a man of arms until 1500 when he abandoned his military career for writing.
He was a personal friend of cardinal Bembo and produced numerous works in Latin and Italian.
This epic has three main themes: the romance of Orlando and Angelica, the war between Christians and Muslims near Paris and the complicated love affair between Roggero and Bradamante.
www.rarebooks.nd.edu /exhibits/durand/epic/ariosto.html   (140 words)

  
 Ariosto, M. Lodovico, ORLANDO FURIOSO di M. Lodovico Ariosto, tutto Ricorretto et di Nuove Figure Adornato
Ariosto's great cantos inspired by the crusades are considered his crowning achievement.
He continued to work on correcting and enlarging it throughout the remainder of his life thus the first "complete" ORLANDO FURIOSO was not produced till 1532, the year prior to the author's death by consumption.
They were placed in the instructive tradition of the Marcolini Dante, the illustration is mentioned on the title-page and at the beginning of Ruscelli's 1556 dedication to Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara.
www.polybiblio.com /bud/18663.html   (459 words)

  
 Glimmerglass Opera - Opera Insights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lodovico Ariosto's (1474-1533) monumental Orlando furioso was published three times during the poet's lifetime, comprising 46 cantos in its final form.
There is also a romance between the maiden Bradamante and the knight Ruggero, a calculated diplomatic gesture on Ariosto's part, since the powerful Este family was supposed to have descended from the union of these two lovers.
Ariosto seems to be aware of everything, and that is the level upon which his much celebrated irony operates; Ariosto is constantly examining experience with experience; he is constantly turning attitudes, statements, codes, visions - in short, appearances, words - back upon themselves.
glimmerglass.org /insights/orlando/chivalry_detail.html   (1086 words)

  
 Mashed World - Travel and Leisure Data Sources mashed on to a World Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As with all of the Brera hotels, guests at the Ariosto are offered free use of stylish Riciclo bicycles.
The Hotel Ariosto is a first class hotel located in a Liberty style building, in the heart of the Magenta district.
Completely renovated, the Hotel Ariosto offers old fashioned charm with contemporary comforts, while the beauty of this old and noble building has remained intact.
www.mashedworld.com /map.aspx?id=50200765   (346 words)

  
 Undergraduate Research Program
Ariosto realized the growing relevance of women as readers at the time his work was published in 1516, and thus made influential changes in the language and behavior of his female characters to encourage non-typical female roles.
I will help her investigate the repercussions this work had as a prescription for women to follow and as an example for the portrayal of women in subsequent works of Renaissance authors.
She recently completed her dissertation on the place of women in Ariosto’s work and plans on continuing her research to either publish a revised version of her dissertation or future articles on the theme.
www.udel.edu /UR/italst.html   (721 words)

  
 Lodovico Lombardo ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Lodovico Lana, La Mort De Clorinde (the death of Clorinda)...eighteenth plate in the book...
Lodovico Caracci - The Assumption of the Virgin 1586-87 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art Italian
Lodovico Carracci - The Dream of Saint Catherine of Alexandria c.
www.wwar.com /masters/l/lombardo-lodovico.html   (409 words)

  
 JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Lodovico Ariosto Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Library's collection of early editions of the works of Ariosto is the second most important in Britain, comprising 83 of the 280 16th-century editions recorded by Agnelli and Ravegnani.
The 16th-century editions of all the other works by Ariosto are available save for the prose version of La Cassaria and Erbolato.
Dialect versions include the very rare 1558 edition, French translations date from 1720 and 1844, and of the twelve English translations published up to 1800, the Library has ten, including the first edition of Harington's translation, 1591, and a rare first issue of the first Croker edition of 1755.
rylibweb.man.ac.uk /data2/spcoll/ariosto   (147 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Cinque Canti = Five Cantos (Biblioteca Italiana): English Books: Lodovico Ariosto,Alexander Sheers,David ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Begun as a sequel to his epic masterpiece "Orlando Furioso" (1516), the unfinished "Cinque Canti" are a powerful poem in their own right.
Tragic in tone, they depict the disintegration of the chivalric world of Charlemagne and his knights and give poetic expression to a sense of cultural, political, and religious crisis felt in Ariosto's Italy and in early sixteenth-century Europe more generally.
Five Cantos is Ariosto's relatively unknown sequel to his fabulous Orlando Furioso.
www.amazon.de /Cinque-Canti-Cantos-Biblioteca-Italiana/dp/0520200071   (539 words)

  
 September 8th
Ferrara derives its principal celebrity from the house of Ariosto, which is maintained in good condition at the public expense.
Some time in the last century, the tomb of Ariosto was struck by lightning, and the iron laurels that wreathed the brows of the poet's bust were melted by the electric fluid.
In 1801, the French general, Miollis, removed Ariosto's tomb and remains to the gallery of the public library of Ferrara; and there, too, are pre-served his chair, ink-stand, and an imperfect copy of the Orlando in his own handwriting.
www.thebookofdays.com /months/sept/8.htm   (3762 words)

  
 Knights at the Opera, Part 12 - Sixteenth-Century Epic Poetry
More than 100 operas owe their plots to Lodovico Ariosto's 1516 soap-opera-like episodic saga, Orlando Furioso.
It took twenty-seven years for this poet to complete the work, which he created in honor of his benefactor, a descendent of the Lombard-related duchy of Este.
Ariosto interwove some seven centuries of history (and an international cast of characters) with myth and fantasy (including such legendary characters as Merlin).
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/opera/87059   (440 words)

  
 Portrait of a Poet (Ariosto?)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The painting has been supposed to represent a poet for the figure has a book in his hands and there are laurels (with which poets were crowned) behind him.
It probably dates from about 1516 when the poem 'Orlando Furioso' was published and achieved instantaneous fame, and so has been proposed as a portrait of the author, Lodovico Ariosto (1474 - 1533).
Ingres's 'Angelica saved by Ruggiero', in the Collection depicts a subject from Ariosto's work.
www.nationalgallery.org.uk /cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG636   (113 words)

  
 Ludovico Ariosto — Infoplease.com
It was intended to glorify the Este family as Vergil had glorified the Julians.
Ariosto also wrote lyric verse of unequal merit, but he was among the first to write comedies in the vernacular (based loosely on Roman models), among them
"Her filthy feature open showne" in Ariosto, Spenser, and 'Much Ado about Nothing.'.(playwrights Ludovico Ariosto and Edmund Spenser)...
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0804691.html   (257 words)

  
 Renaissance Epic
Edmund Spenser Home Page Richard Bear has texts of many other poets, including most of the Ovidian narratives of the period.
Orlando Furioso W. Rose's nineteenth-century translation, based on the 1532 version of the poem.
Reflections on Milton and Ariosto [EMLS 2.3 (December 1996): 4.1-16] by Roy Flannagan
www.auburn.edu /~downejm/renaissance.html   (101 words)

  
 Ariosto Links - L'ORLANDO FURIOSO - Luodovico Ariosto
At the beginning of the 16th century, Lodovico Ariosto is the best example of the "modern" Italian
Reflections on Milton and Ariosto - Roy Flannagan - Ohio University
Ludovico Ariosto a partire dal 1527 fece costruire la sua casa da Girolamo da Carpi.....
bepi1949.altervista.org /ariosto/alinks.htm   (137 words)

  
 Lodovico Ariosto
Nepoznatiot Prlicev : smehuriite na Ariosto, smeuriite na Ariosto
The satires of Ludovico Ariosto : a Renaissance autobiography
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www.rarebooksfinder.com /148881_lodovico-ariosto.html   (160 words)

  
 Lodovico Ariosto Custom Essay Writing, Lodovico Ariosto Essays, Research Papers, Custom Book Reports Overnight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Lodovico Mattioli ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Lodovico Mattioli, St. Jerome in the Wilderness, 17th - 18th century
Henry Moses, Lodovico Ariosto, 18th - 19th century
The permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation constitutes the very core of the institution, said Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenhei...
www.wwar.com /masters/m/mattioli-lodovico.html   (452 words)

  
 Ariosto today
Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille (by Benedetto Croce; translated by Douglas Ainslie; ISBN: 0848605691; 2% match)
Cervantes and Ariosto (by Thomas R. Hart; ISBN: 0691067694; (alk.
Click on a subject to see other books listed with the same subject or to drill down into components of the subject -- such as geographical locations, dates and so on.
isbndb.com /d/book/ariosto_today.html   (246 words)

  
 George Glazer Gallery - Eulogies of Illustrious Italians
Dante Alighieri, Angelo Poliziano, Lodovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso
[In Praise of Dante Alighieri, of Angelo Poliziano, of Lodovico Ariosto, and of Torquato Tasso]
Biographical and literary essays celebrating four illustrious Italian literary figures: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), author of The Divine Comedy and The Inferno; Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494), poet and humanist; Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533), idealist poet; and Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) author of the epic poem Jerusalem Delivered.
www.georgeglazer.com /prints/portraits/danteelogy.html   (238 words)

  
 John Milton and Sventeenth Century Culture
Orlando furioso di M. Lodovico Ariosto, tutto ricorretto, and di nuove figure adornato.
Two of Milton's great heroes as modern epic poets were Italian, Ariosto and Tasso, and Milton's commonplace notebook includes reference to Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and he quoted (in his own translation) from the poem in his own first prose work Of Reformation (1641).
On his Italian journey, Milton passed through the northern city of Ferrara, where Ariosto had enjoyed the Duke's patronage.
www.sc.edu /library/spcoll/britlit/milton/miltonitaly.html   (2386 words)

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