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Lyric Poems

by Ludovico Ariosto

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Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto

Italian Renaissance poet whose Orlando Furioso is the definitive Renaissance chivalric epic, full of irony, beauty, and inexhaustible narrative energy. It influenced Spenser and Milton.

More by Ludovico Ariosto

Orlando FuriosoEpic fantasy following knights and sorcery across magical realms with romantic subplots
SatireSatirical verses mocking social vices and human follies with wit and irony
CassariaComic play depicting young lovers outsmarting elders through clever deceptions
SuppositiComic play about mistaken identities among twins separated in childhood