Ludovico Ariosto

Satire

Satirical verses mocking social vices and human follies with wit and irony

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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.

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