This chapter explores how the Furioso came to represent multiple aspects relating to Italy and the Italian Renaissance as a whole, in a variety of testimonies: from Karl Marx’s uses and misuses of Ariosto’s imagery back to Samuel Richardson’s and Mary Shelley’s incorporations of the Orlando Furioso into the very heart of the stories of Clarissa Harlow and Victor Frankenstein, up to John Addington Symonds’s idea of the Italian Renaissance. Considering little-known chapters of the Furioso’s fortunes in English speaking literature, it examines how Ariosto came to represent a specific tradition of the Italian Renaissance for a British audience.
Jossa, S. (2026). Ariosto Readers: An Idea of the Italian Renaissance?. In S. Jossa, M. Marrapodi (a cura di), A Reader Research Guide to Ariosto in Shakespeare's England (pp. 457-479). London : Routledge [10.4324/9781003541738].
Ariosto Readers: An Idea of the Italian Renaissance?
Stefano Jossa
2026-11-03
Abstract
This chapter explores how the Furioso came to represent multiple aspects relating to Italy and the Italian Renaissance as a whole, in a variety of testimonies: from Karl Marx’s uses and misuses of Ariosto’s imagery back to Samuel Richardson’s and Mary Shelley’s incorporations of the Orlando Furioso into the very heart of the stories of Clarissa Harlow and Victor Frankenstein, up to John Addington Symonds’s idea of the Italian Renaissance. Considering little-known chapters of the Furioso’s fortunes in English speaking literature, it examines how Ariosto came to represent a specific tradition of the Italian Renaissance for a British audience.
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