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Ariosto's Grace: The View from Lodovico Dolce
There have been a number of excellent studies illuminating the scholarly controversy over the merits and weaknesses of Ariosto's poem which spanned the forty years after its publication.1 Less work has been done on the reception of Ariosto by his non-specialist readership.2 My aim here is to fill that gap and to shed light on the quality of grace that made this poem a Renaissance bestseller. Driven by an enthusiastic love of the poem, it constitutes a concerted-at times missionary-effort to distil from it the qualities that most appealed to him and those that he thought would best please and instruct its readers. Because he wrote so prolifically, it would be hard to do justice to the full range of Dolce's assessment of Ariosto in one short essay.
Journal Article
Ariosto the Traveller
Although Ludovico Ariosto always hated travelling, the \"Orlando furioso\" provides a compelling landscape of multiple locations, exotic place names, uncharted geographical spaces, and marvellous journeys. This essay examines what it might mean when the literary imagination of a home-loving poet embarks on such wondrous journeys across the new worlds of the Renaissance globe and beyond. It examines 'actual' and literary imprints on the \"Furioso's\" itineraries and then offers an assessment of the interplay between the two as a useful way of thinking about the delicate transactions between reality and literature underpinning the poem as a whole.
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Ariosto the Lunar Traveller
This second part of a two-part essay on the theme of travel in the \"Orlando furioso\" reads Astolfo's journey to the moon as a means of gaining a critical perspective on the sixteenth-century court and an allegorical reflection on the role and value of literature therein. Emphasizing the links between the episode and Menippean satire, it shows how Ariosto experiments with different narrative modes to yield original visions of the changing and infinitely complex world, to comment on the profession of writing, and to celebrate the power of poetry to be at once entertaining and instructive.
Journal Article
The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso
Carthy reviews The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso by Sergio Zatti and edited by Dennis Looney.
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