Ludovico Ariosto
Orlando Furioso — the great Italian romance epic
Orlando Furioso is the supreme achievement of Italian Renaissance narrative poetry — a vast, labyrinthine romance of knights, sorcerers, flying horses, and lunar voyages, told with an ironic grace that never loses its thread across 46 cantos. Calvino called it the poem that contains all other poems.
Key works
- Orlando Furioso1516/1532— 46 cantos of chivalric romance — ironic, dazzling, inexhaustible