Ariosto

[ ahr-ee-os-toh, -oh-stoh, ar-; Italian ah-ree-aws-taw ]

noun

1. Lu·do·vi·co [loo-daw-, vee, -kaw], 1474–1533, Italian poet: author of Orlando Furioso.

Ariosto

/ aˈrjɔsto /

noun

1. AriostoLudovico14741533MItalianWRITING: poet Ludovico (ludoˈviːko). 1474–1533, Italian poet, famous for his romantic epic Orlando Furioso (1516)

Example Sentences

This was a woman to whom the normally acid-penned poet Ariosto wrote tributes.

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A third poem, Nerto, appeared in 1884, and showed the poet in a new light; his admirers now compared him to Ariosto.

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Ludovico Ariosto, the Italian poet, is by some authorities said to have died on this day.

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Ariosto is worse; Smollett ten times worse; Fielding no better.

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She really had the heroical aspect in a grandiose-grotesque, fitted to some lines of Ariosto.

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The house of Ariosto is one of Ferraras most popular attractions, though indeed it is not remarkable architecturally.

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