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    Ludovico Ariosto (Italian: [ludoˈviːko aˈrjɔsto, - ariˈɔsto]; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the...
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    fuˈrjoːzo, -so]; The Frenzy of Orlando) is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version...
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    Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo, and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. When first introduced, Duke Astolfo is trapped in the form of a myrtle...
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    of a horse. It was invented at the beginning of the 16th century by Ludovico Ariosto in his Orlando Furioso. Within the poem, the hippogriff is a steed...
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    GUICCIARDINI" (in Italian). 27 October 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2022. "ARIOSTO, Ludovico" (in Italian). Retrieved 1 July 2022. ""Prose della volgar lingua"...
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    Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Since the poems exerted a wide influence on later culture, she became...
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    Ferrara, it houses: Anatomical Theater of Ferrara Sala Ariosto—mausoleum of the writer Ludovico Ariosto Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea—a historical library and...
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    for the hero, and the tale of Pegasus, Bellerophon's winged horse. Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem Orlando Furioso, which tells a similar story, has introduced...
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    resurgence of verse during the high Renaissance in the oeuvres of Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, and Edmund Spenser. In Old Norse, they are the prose...
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    Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso (by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto respectively), are even further detached from history than the earlier...
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    Orcus (section Ariosto)
    the same sort of creature. An early example of an orco appears in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516), as a bestial, blind, tusk-faced monster inspired...
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    Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Ruggiero had originally appeared in the twelfth-century French epic...
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    Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Saracen king of the Tartars and emperor of Mongolia, Mandricardo is...
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    lamentations in the eerie trees. In Canto XXXIII of Orlando Furioso, author Ludovico Ariosto has the Christian Ethiopian Emperor Senapo (Prester John) afflicted...
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    Emperor Hugo. The Italian Renaissance authors Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto, whose works were once as widely read and respected as William Shakespeare's...
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  • equivalent is Ludovica. Ludovico D'Aragona (1876–1961), Italian socialist politician Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian poet Ludovico Avio (1932–1996), Argentine...
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    Boiardo. She reappears in the saga's continuation, Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, and in various later works based on the two original Orlando pieces...
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    William Oughtred Luca Pacioli Robert Recorde Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia Ludovico Ariosto Martin Bauzer Luís de Camões Baldassare Castiglione Miguel de Cervantes...
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    Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. In the tales, he was portrayed as physically invulnerable except at...
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  • stories of the Paladins especially the epic poem Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. The film was generally panned by critics, but appreciated on its visual...
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    witticisms have been attributed, some copied from Italian sources like Ludovico Ariosto. Ferrial was born in France in 1479. In unknown circumstances, Ferrial...
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  • well known survival is in the Italian epics by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Ludovico Ariosto, and a number of lesser authors who worked the material; their tales...
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    Alcina (category Operas based on works by Ludovico Ariosto)
    altered for better conformity, the story was originally taken from Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso (like those of the Handel operas Orlando and Ariodante)...
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    Literature (2nd ed.). New York: AMS Press. p. 80. ISBN 0-404-05451-X. [1] Ludovico Ariosto - Opere minori (tomo I) "Non tardar amato bene," left incomplete by...
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  • Egidio Ariosto (1911–1998), Italian politician Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian poet Ariosto Temporin (born 1955), Italian rower Ariosto A. Wiley...
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    works (Fazio degli Uberti, 14th century; Luigi Pulci, 15th century; Ludovico Ariosto, 15th–16th centuries) and has even older cognates with the Latin orcus...
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  • scheme ABABABCC. This form was used by Spenser's Italian role models Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso. Another possible influence is rhyme royal, a traditional...
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    Pulci (author of Morgante), Matteo Maria Boiardo (Orlando Innamorato), Ludovico Ariosto (Orlando Furioso), and Torquato Tasso (Jerusalem Delivered, 1581)....
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    Italian writer, Francesco Guicciardini, held the same position. In 1474, Ludovico Ariosto, author of Orlando Furioso, was born in the Malaguzzi palace, near...
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  • La liberazione di Ruggiero (category Operas based on works by Ludovico Ariosto)
    Florence, with a libretto by Ferdinando Saracinelli [it] based on Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. It is the first opera written by a woman and was...
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