Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Ariosto and the Classics in Ferrara 18
6. The Orlando innamorato and the Genesis of the Furioso 32
7. The History of the Furioso 55
8. ‘The Nightingale in a Cage’: Ariosto and the Este Court 71
9. Ariosto: Landscape Artist 93
10. The Advertising of Fictionality in Orlando furioso 106
11. A Reading of the Interlaced Plot of the Orlando funoso: The Three Cases of Love Madness 126
12. The Lyric Poetry of Ariosto 154
13. The Theatre of Ariosto 176
14. From Poem to Theatre to Cinema: Luca Ronconi’s Orlando furioso 195
15. Ariosto and Calvino: The Adventures of a Reader 211
16. Contributors 235