On a background that is the war between Christians and Moors, take shape and the endless intricate stories of characters who move within the imaginative world map. This, like a colorful tapestry, welcomes heroes, heroines, but also love women and ordinary soldiers, who are these facts of human pasta or fairy is of minor importance: the fiction is just a ploy to in-Ludere the reader that as soon find contentment in the action of wizards, fairies and magic rings, is shown again in a more human dimension, moreover, according to Calvino, Ariosto does not make use of magical powers even when these spells. The boundary between illusion and reality is always much labile, and Ariosto is fully aware of this, therefore, takes care to keep it in mind as readers, as its poetic creatures.
Around Angelica on the run is a swirl of warriors ... Angelica, a real engine of the narrative poem, gives the initial impetus to action those warriors who are attracted (as Orlando in the first place, then Rinaldo, Sacripante) and which, starting from the first narrative center began to spread around the world, crossing their stories with those of many heroes in this way you can know the stories involving characters from all sides, from the love story of Ruggiero and Bradamante to that of Isabella and Mat, the story Rodomonte the brute, to which they relate, among other things, that the kidnapping of Doral, his bride, by Mandricardo, and that of the final duel between Rodomonte and Ruggiero. At the center of the poem there is a pitfall : this is the place where the destinies of all the characters come together to make Ariosto common experience, the castle of Atlas. There comes Ruggiero and Orlando as well as all researchers van, is a vortex of nothing, the desert of what you want. Astolfo Only later will be able to do vanish defeating its guardian Atlas, and always will come to your senses Astolfo Orlando after having recovered his senses on the Moon, another kingdom respect to the Earth. Only at that point of the poem all the nodes are dissolved, and the narrative may be coming to an end with the marriage of Ruggiero and Bradamante and the celebration of the latter as a progenitor of the Herculean race. Although characteristics with different characters, countless characters have in common the goal that moves them and landing point of receipt in an attempt to achieve their object of desire. In fact, they move like a huge game of chess: playing by the only branch simultaneous games that take place on the chessboard of the world, subject to fixed rules, just like in chess. Each character takes the field with its own history, which has often been linked with the stories of others. Retracing the history of each segment of them, it happens that some segments are shared by multiple characters, and if each segment gives the appearance of a card deck of tarot cards, you get the achievements Calvino in "The Castle of Crossed Destinies ". Inside the castle the night shelter has surprised many in the middle of the forest in which it is located. Unable to speak, tell their stories using a number of cards in the tarot deck and at the end of the stories, they are arranged to form a complete puzzle of figures that can tell a story from anywhere they are read. Just as Ariosto, Calvin also makes use of his art poet to rise to juggler and magician (as he calls himself) who creates his own fantasy with stories of men who end up having something in common.
addition to common features of walking, the Ariosto characters follow the same mental labyrinth, that in the macrocosm of the poem is the same maze in which they place their deeds. The Furious can be considered as the magnification of the dynamics, often conflicting, that seat is in the human, humans of all time. With this in mind each character is nothing but the realization of every aspect of human thought as the warriors of "pasta fairy" is a presumption of immortality, the unique fame of glory; Angelica is what you go looking, Orlando is the sense of defeat that leads to madness and the Castle of Atlas illusion; Medoro hydrochloride and the idea of \u200b\u200bfriendship that prevails every interest Ruggiero the knowledge that, after all, in any way we can subtract to real life. These conflicting pressures are necessarily intertwined from the moment when man begins to live. Ariosto's modernity lies in including the man of his time (which is also the modern one) and have created a work that might reveal his every appearance with a unique style and imagination.
Francesca Pulido
