Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariostowas an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso. The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. Ariosto composed the poem in the ottava rima rhyme scheme and introduced narrative commentary throughout the work...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 September 1474
god
They think they have God Almighty by the toe.
believe
We soon believe the things we would believe.
hideous seems
Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
changed changing nature nor
Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.