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Orlando Furioso : A New Verse Translation by Ludovico Ariosto is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Orlando Furioso : A New Verse Translation about?
The appearance of David R. Slavitt’s translation of <i>Orlando Furioso</i> (“Mad Orlando”), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissance, is a publishing event. With this lively new verse translation, Slavitt introduces readers to Ariosto’s now neglected masterpiece—a poem whose impact on Western literature can scarcely be exaggerated. It was a major influence on Spenser’s <i>Faerie Queene</i>. William Shakespeare borrowed one of its plots. Voltaire called it the equal of th
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- Author
- Ludovico Ariosto
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674053519
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Romance, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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