← Ludovico AriostoSatireby Ludovico AriostoSatirical verses mocking social vices and human follies with wit and ironyFind on Amazon↗About the authorLudovico AriostoItalian 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 AriostoOrlando FuriosoEpic fantasy following knights and sorcery across magical realms with romantic subplots→CassariaComic play depicting young lovers outsmarting elders through clever deceptions→SuppositiComic play about mistaken identities among twins separated in childhood→Lyric Poems→