Nell 'Orlando Furioso, Ludovico Ariosto, Boiardo takes action where the claims and there are three main stories: first, it tells of the paladin Orlando, grandson of Charlemagne, and of how, in love with Angelica, he becomes insane because of the marriage of his beloved with Medoro, and its consequent loss of the sense that after Astolfo recover on the Moon, where is all that is lost on Earth, the same time there is the story of Angelica, with its endless leaks from the knights of her lovers, but she eventually falls in love the young soldier in Medoro become his wife, and finally an 'other story is that Bradamante and Ruggiero, respectively knight rider Christian and pagan, and the obstacles that the two must overcome to fulfill their destiny and married. The theater where you play the adventures of the characters is the war between Christians and Saracens Agramante of Charlemagne, under the watchful eye of the narrator, omniscient and outside.
are presented to the reader many different scenarios, from East to West, from the battlefields of the wildest woods, until you get to the moon with the Hippogriff, and in these places you play the adventures of characters whose feelings meet and attract each other: love, friendship, loyalty, devotion mingle and live with infidelity, deceit, violence. I am therefore figures that change, transform and reflect the real life characters, making the Orlando Furioso the novel of the passions and aspirations of the people of the time: the modern man is harmoniously composed, is not prepared in accordance with criteria of balance, but change, exaggerate, is torn between many desires and obligations. Ariosto knows that the world of knights belonging to the past and therefore does not intend to celebrate: The Orlando Furioso is intended as a literary device to express ideals and human values \u200b\u200bof 500.
The author tells in essence, the many paths that modern man, rational, free and responsible for their actions can be taken. An important element of novelty and modernity is the fact that the work is not directed only at the Este court, but to the whole contemporary society is the first literary work with the widespread use of the press.
Italo Calvino Law and revises the Orlando Furioso. He travels in the poem of Ariosto: not reported in full, but chooses, comments and explains the most beautiful verses, the suits in a modern way for easier understanding. Recall the different characters, explaining them and giving the right space at all.
In a way similar to the Furious is another work by Calvino: The Castle of Crossed Destinies. Perhaps a rereading of the castle of Atlas, the hero finds himself in a fortress in the middle of a forest with all sorts of other people imprisoned with him, can not speak and then tell their stories through tarot cards. But the arrangement of cards in a story resembles that of other stories and so the stories are interwoven, forming a huge network where you can lose yourself along the endless plots. And as the stories are endless identifiable in the arrangement of tarot cards, endless are the characters who could be identified.
The second part of The Castle of Crossed Destinies, entitled La Taverna of Crossed Destinies, is characterized by much stronger tone, the basic pattern is similar: a group of people gather in a tavern and tell their stories through tarot cards, but the atmosphere is not quiet, the terror of finding himself shot in that place has left its mark on the concrete actors, whose hair is whitened with fear, they also feel the rush of people to tell their own story: the cards just resting on the table are taken by others for other stories, so that some are forced to keep them well-secured with arms and hands, the stories themselves are the toughest in the loss and destruction. The atmosphere recalls the scenes of war or battle of Orlando Furioso. As in the Orlando Furioso
there is a unique complex and deep character psychology around which to rotate all the vicissitudes of the work. Ariosto is that Calvin, at least in this case, have created a large number of characters in order to underline the fundamental character that reflects a typical aspect of human nature, knowing not to exhaust its infinite variety.
Giuliana Siddi
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