Nec pueris iucunda manet, nec cara puellis.

Sic virgo, dum intacta manet, dum cara suis est Ĭum castum amisit polluto corpore florem, Nulli illum pueri, nullae optavere puellae: Multi illum pueri, multae optavere puellae: Quem mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber

Ut flos in saeptis secretus nascitur hortis,.

But no sooner is she plucked from her mother-stalk, severed from her green stem, than she loses all, all the favour, grace, and beauty wherewith heaven and men endowed her. The gentle breeze and the dewy dawn, water, and earth pay her homage amorous youths and loving maidens like to deck their brows with her, and their breasts.

A virgin is like a rose: while she remains on the thorn whence she sprang, alone and safe in a lovely garden, no flock, no shepherd approaches.

L'acqua, la terra al suo favor s'inchina:

His hair stands up erect and from his face.

Driven raving mad by love-and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.

Of courtliness, and of valiant deeds I sing.

Of ladies, knights, of passions and of wars,.

Le donne i cavallier, l'arme, gli amori,.

Ah, cruel Love! What is the reason why you seldom make our longings correspond? Much they know,

What a man sees, Love can make invisible-and what is invisible, that can Love make him see. Orlando, driven raving mad by love-and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence. It is above all in the development of Orlando’s love story that Ariosto announces his unique contribution to the narration of the allegory.Quotes Orlando Furioso (1532) Of ladies, knights, of passions and of wars, I sing. The poem’s opening verses announce the major plot lines to be continued: the war between King Agramante of Biserta and Charlemagne (epic), Orlando’s infatuation with Angelica of Cathay (romance), and the foundation of the Estense family through the hero Ruggiero (dynastic). As he continues to mix imaginary sites and the geographical reality of a rapidly expanding globe, Ariosto not only meticulously completes the various threads of Boiardo’s poem, but also adds original episodes following his own creative genius and Weltanschauung. Like Boiardo, Ariosto weaves together Carolingian and Arthurian themes into an intricately interlaced plot, creatively imitating a vast range of works-from classical epic poetry and history to medieval lyric and novella traditions. One of the best known works in Italian literature, the Orlando Furioso, is a continuation of the romance epic Orlando Innamorato, which was left unfinished at the ninth canto of Book Three when Boiardo died in 1494. 2014 Articles Ludovico Ariosto: Orlando Furioso (1532)

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