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Ariosto and the “Fier Pastor”: Form and History in Orlando Furioso

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Albert Russell Ascoli
Albert Russell Ascoli*
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University of California, Berkeley
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Abstract

This essay explores the formal means (a variant of the medieval romance technique of entrelacement) by which Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso represents and comments on contemporary events, particularly the threats posed by French and Spanish invasions and by the interventionist politics of Popes Julius II and Leo X. Ariosto's treatment of the latter figure exemplifies both the specificity of the interplay between form and history in the Furioso Innamorato and its innovative character with respect to precursors, notably Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato. A final section considers the changing significance of such topical material between the first edition of 1516 (when Leo was alive) and the final edition of 1532 (long after Leo's death, and under very different historical circumstances).

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , Summer 2001 , pp. 487 - 522
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2001

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