Ariosto

American  

[ahr-ee-os-toh, -oh-stoh, ar-, ah-ree-aws-taw] / ˌɑr iˈɒs toʊ, -ˈoʊ stoʊ, ˌær-, ˌɑ riˈɔs tɔ /

noun

1. Ludovico 1474–1533, Italian poet: author of Orlando Furioso.

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Ariosto British  

/ aˈrjɔsto /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Handel’s marvelous 1735 opera dramatizes characters from an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto that was wildly popular as well as influential in the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

From Seattle Times

Joined by four other players and the sopranos Mariana Flores and Julie Roset — alternately feather-soft and piercingly strong — Alarcón offers 90 minutes of d’India, anchored by two grand laments from abandoned women, Virgil’s Dido and Ariosto’s Olympia.

From New York Times

“Those murals belong to the people,” says Ariosto Otero, who helped establish En Defensa del Patrimonio del Centro SCOP, a preservation group consisting of artists, intellectuals and preservationists.

From Los Angeles Times

After photojournalist David Ariosto went to Cuba in 2009 for CNN, how could he not write a book?

From Washington Post

Ariosto’s perspective offers clues to why Cuba remains poised on modernity’s cusp.

From Washington Post