Ariosto, Lodovico 1474-1533

Orlando furioso by Lodovico Ariosto ( Book )
2,849 editions published between 1516 and 2011 in 16 languages and held by 2,904 libraries worldwide
"With this new verse translation of Orlando Furioso ("Mad Orlando"), David R. Slavitt introduces readers to Ariosto's now-neglected masterpiece - a poem whose impact on Western literature can scarcely be exaggerated. Now, through translations of generous selections from this longest of all major European poems, Slavitt brings the poem to life in ways previous translators have nor." "At the heart of Ariosto's romance are Orlando's unrequited love for the pagan princess Angelica and his jealous rage when she elopes. The action takes place against a besieged Paris, as Charlemagne and his Christian paladins defend the city against the Saracen king. The poem, however, obeys no geography or rules but its own, as the story moves by whim from Japan to the Hebrides to the moon; it includes such imaginary creatures as the hippogriff and a sea monster called the orc. Orlando Furioso is Dante's medieval universe turned upside down and made comic. Characterized by satire, parody, and irony, the poem celebrates a new humanistic Renaissance conception of man in an utterly fantastical world. Slavitt's translation captures the energy, comedy, and great fun of Ariosto's Italian."--Jacket.

The satires of Ludovico Ariosto : a Renaissance autobiography by Lodovico Ariosto ( Book )
201 editions published between 1534 and 2009 in 10 languages and held by 656 libraries worldwide
On découvre dans cette oeuvre du poète italien, l'autoportrait d'un homme épris de simplicité, contraint, pour affirmer ses goûts propres, d'en venir à une critique acerbe de ses contemporains.

The comedies of Ariosto by Lodovico Ariosto ( Book )
2 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 524 libraries worldwide

Sir John Harington's translation of Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto ( Book )
2 editions published in 1962 in English and held by 432 libraries worldwide

Opere minori by Lodovico Ariosto ( Book )
49 editions published between 1857 and 2004 in Italian and Undetermined and held by 380 libraries worldwide

Cinque canti = Five cantos by Lodovico Ariosto ( Book )
46 editions published between 1546 and 1997 in 4 languages and held by 358 libraries worldwide
This new translation brings to English-speaking readers an intense and brooding work by the greatest poet of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto. 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 generally. David Quint's introduction freshly examines the literary sources and models of the Cinque Canti and discusses the cultural contexts and historical occasions of the poem. Printed with facing Italian text, this volume allows the modern English reader to experience a work of Renaissance literature whose savage beauty still has the power to chill and fascinate.

Commedie by Lodovico Ariosto ( Book )
81 editions published between 1524 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 232 libraries worldwide

Opere by Lodovico Ariosto ( Book )
44 editions published between 1067 and 1989 in Italian and Undetermined and held by 201 libraries worldwide

Supposes (I suppositi) (1509) by Lodovico Ariosto ( Book )
84 editions published between 1509 and 2005 in 6 languages and held by 173 libraries worldwide

Stories from the Italian poets : with lives of the writers by Leigh Hunt ( Book )
7 editions published in 1846 in English and held by 173 libraries worldwide