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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.


Ariosto British  
/ aˈrjɔsto /

noun

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

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But as a journalist, Mr. Ariosto would have served readers better by interviewing more experts and weighing their claims rather than washing his hands of technical matters.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

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 Sep. 6, 2023

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

From Washington Post Nov. 27, 2018

The many readers of Ariosto and Tasso were no doubt drawn to the stories’ magical trappings.

From New York Times Feb. 3, 2012

Ariosto energetically expresses the contemptinto which it had fallen14 and places it among the various chimeras which Astolphus meets with in the moon.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

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