Bojardo

American  

[boi-ahr-doh, baw-yahr-daw] / bɔɪˈɑr doʊ, bɔˈyɑr dɔ /

noun

1. Matteo Maria Boiardo, Matteo Maria.

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Example Sentences

The Morgante Maggiore of Pulci, the Orlando Innamorato of Bojardo, the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto, the Gierusalemme Liberata of Tasso, are all written in this metre.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

He then sat down at the table, on which the old edition of Bojardo was lying open as before.

From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love

Certain parts of 'Paradise Lost' are drawn, as we all know, from other Italian sources, from Sannazario, Ariosto, Guarini, Bojardo, and others.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

I except, of course, Michael Angelo, as I have already said; and I except Boccace and Bojardo.

From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Of a certainty she had gathered her knowledge of the world from the works of Messer Bojardo, or perhaps from the "Amadis of Gaul" of Messer Bernardo Tasso.

From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael