Ludovico Ariosto, Italian playwright and poet (died 1533)

Ludovico Ariosto

Italian poet (1474–1533)

Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the…