L '"Orlando Furioso" by Italo Calvino is a comment which has as its objective to clarify the plot but also on the work of Ariosto.
This operation was carried out in masterly fashion because the author appreciated the works of Ariosto and the same personality, and what we witnessed from his encyclopaedic knowledge of the masterpiece of the sixteenth century.
To comment on the work, the author uses cutouts of the original edition of which regularly advances the plot.
In this way, the storyline is more clear and simple despite Calvin remain faithful to the technique of Ariosto's "defer", also known as "entrelacement" which is to leave suspended the narration of episodes introducing new ones to create more suspense and interest to the reader.
The plot then is not damaged or altered in any way, every thing is narrated with the same sequence chosen from Ariosto.
Calvin seems to appreciate the character of Angelica, which is perhaps the most psychologically complex as it is in constant change, change for its own survival in whole, is sweet and sexy even with Medoro and its suitors if he wants to serve, it's cold and calculator seems to be aware of its beauty and also how to use it, maybe that is why it is so fascinating.
back to work, it as the other productions of Ariosto, was undoubtedly to Calvin not only an inspiration but a real model, a work from which you only learn on the author's mastery in handling the many events that are interlaced continuously within the work but also to draw a psychological profile of each character so spot by making them all be essential.
Ariosto was so important and so appreciated by Calvin the latter was in his work entitled "The Castle of Crossed Destinies" incorporates two pieces of the Furious (Astolfo to the moon and madness of Orlando), probably as a tribute to Ariosto.
These two steps Furioso are placed in a very specific context, since the opera is set in an enchanted castle in which all who are caught traveling in the darkness are welcomed and so does the narrator finds refuge precisely in this place. During dinner, the main character tries to talk to other guests, including Orlando and there were Astolfo, who had dinner without saying a word, but he realizes that he could not talk because he was in an enchanted castle. After dinner guests to communicate with each other using the cards, each representing the story of one of the guests and for this reason that Calvin adds two steps of the Furioso.
The cards are arranged on a table by way 'of tarot cards and in this so intertwined, giving rise to other stories where they take on different meanings than the previous.
Hence the title, from a castle in which the fates, the stories of the guests come together to go and make new stories. The special
, Calvino reveals that when added to his other stories, is that after having done it difficult to remember how he came there.
It seems that the act of removing the cards that represent their own history is tantamount to leave their memory.
The meeting between Calvin and the two characters instead of the Furioso is more puzzling because it is not clear whether only fulfill a function celebrating or whether they constitute an attempt to imitate or if somehow Calvin wants to join his story to that of Ariosto.
back instead to the 'Orlando Furioso, "it is the work that despite his age can still be considered modern in several respects, primarily for the way it dealt with the theme of love, but in particular as represented female characters.
E 'in this is that the modernity of the Furioso, emancipation of the female roles.
Ariosto it was a great connoisseur of Latin auctores tended to imitate them, but this way you can say that attempts to overcome not only the greatest Latin writers but also the great poets like Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, from which it is influenced in many ways.
The overcoming of the models is done with the assignment of female roles not only of greater importance and relevance but also a more detailed psychological profile and brash, just think of the psychological dynamics of Angelica or Bradamante which is actually stronger and more skillful than many knights of the opposite sex.
The originality of this operation is denied because until then Italian literature had always seen women relegated to the role of women as objects that inspired the verses of poets, but in reality is merely this, she was the ' object of desire. Just think of the Petrarchan Laura or Dante's Beatrice, were simply models of outer beauty, but in reality nothing could understand their character as they had only a marginal role, without action, these women, the poet addresses but nothing else.
In this sense, '"Orlando Furioso" gave really modern because if not out of place set in modern times, where women are always looking for more space.
Mario Falchi
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