In 1532, the entire world map, acquire their final shape the stories born from the pen of Ludovico Ariosto, who, in the Orlando Furioso, describes all sorts of characters lined up in rows the war between Christians and Saracens, without ever losing the thread represented by the loss of the sense of the ultimate champion Orlando. The work has its foundations on different aspects, mainly on irony with which Ariosto involves every element provided for in the poem as belonging to an ancient world and claustrophobic as the Middle Ages, whose funeral was celebrated by the Renaissance, it had been. In the eighth Ariosto is no room for magic, understood in its good and bad, for courtly love and loyalty to the sanctioned between the knight and his king, for solidarity between comrades.
Poem, that Ariosto, who inspired and still inspires critical thinking and which often result in works such as that written by Italo Calvino in 1970. Inspired by a great love for the style of Ariosto and the author himself, Calvin bare essentials reducing the Furious, commenting on the eighth they consider most important and highlighting the key issues. He does not fail to underline the irony, but also the human issues and events that unfold throughout the known world by Charlemagne, is consistent with the space left Ariosto's ability to build layers and layers of narrative that are varied between them, but do not disperse and never the less give the poem a bombastic heaviness. In this regard, which seems to celebrate and highlight the Furioso is written in 1973 "The Castle of Crossed Destinies" in which Calvin looks with a magnifying glass some of the episodes from Ariosto reduced retail that will not allow duels, armed, and love spells linger too long. Tarot cards on the table by placing the first of a castle and later a tavern, the other characters in common the fact that he lost in the woods and from having lost the use of the word, make known to those at their own history. Each episode, in its brevity, is emblematic of the issues addressed in the Furioso. So then, arranging the tarot cards to create their own story, alternate brides damned for refusing to recall the love that submissive behavior Angelica, the alchemist who pays the price for trying to overcome human knowledge, a subject on which Ariosto dwells the thought of his life for humanity by making the board to recognize the time allowed to reach them, but not surpass them. Through the Tarot speaks even Orlando, living oxymoron that goes from being a perfect example of honorable paladin and ran naked to massacre and irrational acts of any kind after losing the sense of love. "The Castle of Crossed Destinies" hosts of the intertwining plots that already has its inspiration in the Castle of Atlas, had hosted but did not speculate about the underlying theme, instead of the short axis, but examples, experiences narrated in the tarot. The zigzag path that goes out from Ariosto's furious to delve into the more modest and of an explanatory nature, "Castle of Crossed Destinies" Calvin, heralding the work of twentieth-century conception of the Furioso, which is characterized by the modernity of Ariosto is a promoter. The character of the Furioso runs horizontally to conquer the world of their own destiny, in the poem and the horses and riders racing at full speed without human limitations imposed by the customs of ecclesiastical dogmatism, authoritative and cultural sites in the Middle Ages had nourished. Paradigmatic is the alternation of offices Astolfo that first step onto the Moon, his body perfect and inviolable in the Middle Ages, and later returns to Orlando their wisdom, representing the rebirth rational man.
Orlando and the intricate course of events as diverse and absurd of his traveling companions, and then have pioneered the modern novel in a land where, according to Ariosto, who has not gone crazy.
Luana Cau
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