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    Ludovico Ariosto (Italian: [ludoˈviːko aˈrjɔsto, - ariˈɔsto]; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the...
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    fuˈrjoːzo, -so]; The Frenzy of Orlando) is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version...
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    Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo, and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. When first introduced, Duke Astolfo is trapped in the form of a myrtle...
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    of a horse. It was invented at the beginning of the 16th century by Ludovico Ariosto in his Orlando Furioso. Within the poem, the hippogriff is a steed...
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    GUICCIARDINI" (in Italian). 27 October 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2022. "ARIOSTO, Ludovico" (in Italian). Retrieved 1 July 2022. ""Prose della volgar lingua"...
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    Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Since the poems exerted a wide influence on later culture, she became...
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    Ferrara, it houses: Anatomical Theater of Ferrara Sala Ariosto—mausoleum of the writer Ludovico Ariosto Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea—a historical library and...
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    for the hero, and the tale of Pegasus, Bellerophon's winged horse. Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem Orlando Furioso, which tells a similar story, has introduced...
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    resurgence of verse during the high Renaissance in the oeuvres of Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, and Edmund Spenser. In Old Norse, they are the prose...
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    Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso (by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto respectively), are even further detached from history than the earlier...
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