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Ludovico Ariosto (/ ɑːr i ˈ ɒ s t oʊ /; [1] Italian: [ludoˈviːko aˈrjɔsto,-ariˈɔsto]; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet.He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516).
The modern Russian poet Osip Mandelstam paid tribute to Orlando Furioso in his poem Ariosto (1933). The Italian novelist Italo Calvino drew on Ariosto for several of his works of fiction including Il cavaliere inesistente ("The Nonexistent Knight", 1959) and Il castello dei destini incrociati ("The Castle of Crossed Destinies", 1973). In 1970 ...
Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Angelica is a princess in the epic poem Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo.She reappears in the saga's continuation, Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, and in various later works based on the two original Orlando pieces. [1]
Bradamante (occasionally spelled Bradamant) is a fictional knight heroine in two epic poems of the Renaissance: Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. [1] Since the poems exerted a wide influence on later culture, she became a recurring character in Western art.
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Titian, portrait of an unknown Knight of Malta, c. 1508, Uffizi. A Man with a Quilted Sleeve is a painting of about 1510 by the Venetian painter Titian in the National Gallery, London, [2] measuring 81.2 by 66.3 centimetres (32.0 in × 26.1 in). [3]
Sacripante (also spelled Sacripant, Sacrepant and Sacrapant) is a character in the Italian romantic epics Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Sacripante is the King of Circassia and one of the leading Saracen knights.
Ariodant is an opéra comique (drame mêlé de musique) in three acts by the French composer Étienne Méhul first performed at the Théâtre Favart in Paris on 11 October 1799.