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Ludovico Ariosto

1474 - 1533

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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 romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludovico Ariosto has received more than 349,549 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Ludovico Ariosto is the 317th most popular writer (up from 376th in 2019), the 423rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 492nd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Italian Writer.

Ludovico Ariosto is most famous for his epic poem, Orlando Furioso.

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Compendio de derecho administrativo canónico
2001
Sir John Harington's translation of Orlando Furioso
Italian poetry
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 complete form until 1532. Orlando Furioso is a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's unfinished romance Orlando Innamorato.
1962
Orlando Furioso
1909
Orlando furioso
Poetry
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. It is a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's unfinished romance Orlando Innamorato ("Orlando in Love"). From the backdrop of war between Charlemagne and his Christian paladins, and the Saracen army attempting to invade Europe, the poem wanders at will from Japan to the Hebrides, and includes many fantastical elements, such as a trip to the moon and an array of fantastical creatures including a gigantic sea monster and the hippogriff. Many themes are interwoven in its complicated, episodic structure, the most important being the paladin Orlando's unrequited love for the pagan princess Angelica, which develops into the madness of the title. At 38,736 lines, Ariosto's work is one of the longest poems in European literature.
1557

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ludovico Ariosto ranks 317 out of 7,302. Before him are C. S. Lewis, Gao Xingjian, Roger Martin du Gard, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume de Machaut, and Henri Charrière. After him are Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Michael Ende, Czesław Miłosz, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Archilochus, and Friedrich Schlegel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1474, Ludovico Ariosto ranks 1. After him are Angela Merici, Giulia Farnese, Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia, Isabella d'Este, Tuman bay II, Juan Diego, Mariotto Albertinelli, Anacaona, Frederick of Saxony, Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Perkin Warbeck. Among people deceased in 1533, Ludovico Ariosto ranks 3. Before him are Atahualpa, and Mary Tudor, Queen of France. After him are Vasili III of Russia, Frederick I of Denmark, Lucas van Leyden, Huáscar, Veit Stoss, Túpac Huallpa, Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, and Cornelis Engebrechtsz..

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ludovico Ariosto ranks 423 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Clement III (1130), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Pope Sergius I (650), Philolaus (-470), Josephine of Leuchtenberg (1807), and Geta (189). After him are Arturo Toscanini (1867), Louis II of Italy (825), Poppaea Sabina (30), Andrea Doria (1466), Giovanni Trapattoni (1939), and Pope Martin I (590).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Ludovico Ariosto ranks 26. Before him are Dario Fo (1926), Sallust (-86), Primo Levi (1919), Alberto Moravia (1907), Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), and Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863). After him are Lorenzo Valla (1407), Christine de Pizan (1365), Ennius (-239), Grazia Deledda (1871), Theocritus (-315), and Cornelius Nepos (-100).

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