The only unabridged prose translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso--a witty parody of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France--this version faithfully recaptures the entire narrative and the subtle meanings ...
Orlando Furioso ("The Frenzy of Orlando", more literally "Mad Orlando") is an Italian romantic epic by Ludovico Ariosto, published in its complete form in 1532 and exerting a wide influence on later culture.
The appearance of David R. Slavitt's translation of Orlando Furioso ("Mad Orlando"), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissance, is a publishing event.
Reproduction of the original: Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
The story is also a chivalric romance which stemmed from a tradition beginning in the late Middle Ages and continuing in popularity in the 16th century and well into the 17th.Ludovico Ariosto (8 September 1474 - 6 July 1533) was an Italian ...
So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532), the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France, a brilliantly witty parody of the medieval romances, and a fitting monument to the court society of the ...
An Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its...
Orlando Furioso: The ring of Angelica
The appearance of David Slavitt's translation of 'Orlando Furioso', one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissance, is a publishing event.
... Il viaggio e il gioco. Due noterelle ariostesche (VII, 1-2 e VII, 22), in Studi di letterature comparate in onore di ... pensiero e nell'opera di Ludovico Ariosto, in «Schifanoia», XXX-XXXI (2006), pp. 119-129; P. Galàn Redondo ...