Ariosto

[ ahr-ee-os-toh, -oh-stoh, ar-; Italian ah-ree-aws-taw ]

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noun

Lu·do·vi·co [loo-daw-, vee, -kaw], 1474–1533, Italian poet: author of Orlando Furioso.

Ariosto

/ aˈrjɔsto /

AriostoLudovico14741533MItalianWRITING: poet Ludovico (ludoˈviːko). 1474–1533, Italian poet, famous for his romantic epic Orlando Furioso (1516)

This was a woman to whom the normally acid-penned poet Ariosto wrote tributes.

A third poem, Nerto, appeared in 1884, and showed the poet in a new light; his admirers now compared him to Ariosto.

Ludovico Ariosto, the Italian poet, is by some authorities said to have died on this day.

Ariosto is worse; Smollett ten times worse; Fielding no better.

She really had the heroical aspect in a grandiose-grotesque, fitted to some lines of Ariosto.

The house of Ariosto is one of Ferraras most popular attractions, though indeed it is not remarkable architecturally.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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