Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5 (of 7)

PART II

NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1888

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND PART.

CHAPTER IX.

THE ORLANDO FURIOSO.

_Orlando Furioso_ and _Divina Commedia_--Ariosto expresses the Renaissance as Dante the Middle Ages--Definition of Romantic, Heroic, Burlesque, Heroic-comic, and Satiric Poems--Ariosto's Bias toward Romance--Sense of Beauty in the _...