Noun:

ARISTO,

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The simple house of Ariosto, erected by himself after 1526, in which he died in 1532, lies farther west.

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and Charles V., Ariosto and Montaigne.

About the same time he commenced, at the desire of the ruler of the neighbouring Shirvan, his second romantic poem, the famous Bedouin love-story of Laila and Majnun, which has so many points in common with Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and finished it in the short space of four months.

To this class belong the fairies of Boiardo, Ariosto and Spenser.

The Charlemagne legend was fully developed in Italy, where it was to have later a great poetic development at the hands of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso.

Among his other works are - Das Leben des Kiinstlers Carstens (1806), Ariosto's Lebenslauf (1809), and Francesco Petrarca (1818) .

Among his principal works upon these subjects may be noted the four volumes of Letteratura della nuova Italia (1860-1910); his essays upon Goethe, Ariosto, Shakespeare, Corneille, and the Poetry of Dante; his two volumes Storia della storiografia italiana del secolo XIX.

It is desultory to a degree; it is a base libel on religion and history; it differs from its model Ariosto in being, not, as Ariosto is, a mixture of romance and burlesque, but a sometimes tedious tissue of burlesque pure and simple; and it is exposed to the objection - often and justly urged - that much of its fun depends simply on the fact that there were and are many people who believe enough in Christianity to make its jokes give pain to them and to make their disgust at such jokes piquant to others.

Lodovico Ariosto, the poet (1474-1533), was born in Reggio, and his father's house is still preserved.