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| | Ludovico Ariosto |
 | | Ariosto, Ludovico, 1474–1533, Italian epic and lyric poet. |
 | | 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) (Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900) |
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