any literature connected with an "orlando forioso"....?

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any literature to do with any "orlando forioso"? is orlando forioso an author?.... i have this report on literature but i dont know if he is exactly an author or the subject matter....
thanks for the help....

Answer 1

This is an interesting question, though I can't imagine anyone assigned to give a report on a topic they've obviously never heard of.

Your question relates to "literature connected with Orlando Furioso"; so that's the question I shall answer. If you're interested only in the Italian epic by Ludovico Ariosto, skip to #2 below. [All topics entered in ALL CAPS are available as articles in wikipedia.]

This topic provides a prime example of INTERTEXTUALITY (the way any text we read is connected with other related texts, including sources, retellings, parallel texts, parodies, and the like). I shall mention just four texts "connected with Orlando Furioso," though there are many, many others.

1. SONG OF ROLAND. This is a CHANSON DE GESTE, or heroic poem, an early epic of the French. It tells the story of Roland and his friend Oliver, knights serving as warriors in the rearguard of the armies of Charlemagne. They are killed at the famous Battle of Ronceveau (RONCESVALLES), through the treachery of an ally of the king. Roland, the last survivor, dies sounding his horn to warn Charlemagne. The king returns with his forces and seeks revenge for the death of his heroes, thus establishing his kingdom in Northern Spain. Roland is sometimes said to be the nephew, or even the son, of Charlemagne. His sounding a magic horn becomes a familiar motif in French poetry and folklore.

2. ORLANDO FURIOSO. The historical character of Roland becomes a legendary hero, eventually being translated into Italian as Orlando by street singers. [For an account of the development of the character in Italy, see citation 1 below.] Eventually, two poets produced poems, the second a sequel to the first, on the love life of Orlando, not his feats of war. The first by Boiardo is called Orlando Inamorata (Orlando in love); the second by Ludovico ARIOSTO is called Orlando Furioso, in 46 cantos. It tells many loosely related tales, involving magic or myths, humor, treachery, sexual affairs (in the original Italian, censored in many translations), wanderings of the hero in search of his beloved Angelica, and violent fights of honor. At one point, Orlando loses his mind; hence, the title (furioso=mad or insane).

This poem was widely read and imitated in the Renaissance. It is said to have been an inspiration for Edmund Spenser in THE FAERIE QUEEN in England. Dante also mentions Roland in his the Divine Comedy. OF is an epic in the variety of stories it hinges together, the heroic nature of the main character, the stories of magic potions and mythic characters, and geographic settings of the wanderings. It is not, however, a solemn, national epic on the level of The Iliad, The Odyssey, or The Aeneid.

3. ORLANDO by VIRGINIA WOOLF. Woolf, with intentional irony, chooses the name Orlando as the main character in her Orlando: A Biography. It tells the story of a young knight in Elizabethan England who decides never to grow old. As he makes his way through centuries of hisotry, he ultimately is transformed into a woman, who has the same knightly qualities. The "biography" is actually a ROMAN A CLEF; that is, "a novel describing real-life events behind a façade of fiction." It is based on the lesbian love affair of two of Woolf's contemporaries, Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefusis. It is also sometimes seen as an early celebration of feminism.

4. THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. This is a graphic novel, by Alan Moore, illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, published as comic book series DC comics. Its characters are drawn from the literature of previous ages. Orlando appears in this work, and is described in a appendix called The New Traveller's Almanac, as Woolf's man/female knight, but he/she also takes on some of the character of the Italian Orlando of Boiardo and Arisoto.

So the stories of Roland seem to roll on and on -- furiously!

Good luck with your report. The wikipedia articles, indicated in ALL CAPS, should give you the information you need, at least to get you started--maybe more than enough.

Answer 2

Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

It is an epic poem by Ariosto, and the spelling is "furioso". Try wikipedia: