Ludovico Ariosto Essays

The Stablemaster and Its Comparison to other Literary Works Classic Italian literature within the Renaissance has often included a central idea embodied within a well thought out and biting prank to serve some form of justice or provide entertainment. Also, the common incidence of mimicry in the sixteenth century’s literal works produced large numbers of similar characters, plots, conflicts, and resolutions. The jokes within these literary works often employed the assistance of characters that found

ABSTRACT: Orwell`s “1984” is a scathing satire on modern totalitarian states. Orwell also fears that there are some political states as well which have their own open and subtle designs to strike at the bastion of liberty and the freedom of thought and expression. Orwell’s mind was troubled by three evils- class, oppression, and poverty. Against these three evils he set the following three values- decency, liberty, and justice. Around these six terms we would shape the whole story of Orwell’s mind

The creature was invented by Ludovico Ariosto, an Italian court poet, in his epic poem Orlando Furioso (1516). He defined the creature as having an eagle’s head and beak, a lion’s front legs, richly feathered wings, with the rest of its body being that of a horse. In his poem, Ariosto wrote that the hippogriff is able to fly higher and faster than any other bird. Unlike the griffin, which is untameable, a

humour, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for the same reason that Ariosto gives concerning the beauty of Angelica – she looked so frank-hearted and happy.”(Shelley 52). Here, Mary Shelley alludes this quote to the poem, Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. In the poem, Ariosto dispatched his army in search of Angelica, a pagan princess who ended up fleeing with a soldier from Ariosto’s enemy army. When Ariosto realizes that the thing he most wanted is gone forever, he went deranged and

by Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1408-1471), the Catalan Tirant lo Blanch, and the Castilian or Portuguese Amadis de Gaula (1508), spawned many imitators, and the genre was popularly well- received, producing such masterpiece of Renaissance poetry as Ludovico Ariosto orfando furioso and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata and other 16th-century literary works in the romance genre. The romances were freely drawn upon for royal pageantry. Queen Elizabeth I's Accession Day tilts, for instance, drew freely

initiated) and his friend and contemporary Boccaccio (author of the Decameron). Famous vernacular poets of the 15th century include the renaissance epic authors Luigi Pulci (author of Morgante), Matteo Maria Boiardo (Orlando Innamorato), and Ludovico Ariosto (Orlando Furioso). 15th century writers such as the poet Poliziano and the Platonist philosopher Marsilio Ficino made extensive translations from both Latin and Greek. In the early 16th century, Castiglione (The Book of the Courtier) laid out

A. Bartlett Giamatti A. Bartlett “Bart” Giamatti was a scholar, educator and president of Yale University who in his later years became the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball. Angelo Bartlett Giamatti was born on April 4, 1938 in South Hadley, Massachusetts, near Mount Holyoke College, where his father, Valentine Giamatti, founded the departments of Italian and Spanish languages and literature. His paternal grandfather, Angelo Giamatti, emigrated from Italy and entered Ellis Island around

1. Introduction In this thesis, I argue that many of the creatures described in some medieval bestiaries play a very important role in the creation of the imaginary and symbolic world of Harry Potter written by the author J. K. Rowling. In the following paragraphs I will discuss the similarities and differences between the medieval beasts and the creatures in Rowling’s Harry Potter book series. I also explain how the author plays with symbolism and uses her novels to highlight how medieval and modern