CRITICISM

Javitch, Daniel. Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of Orlando furioso. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991, 205 p.

Considers the interpretation and critical reception that sixteenth-century readers gave to Orlando furioso.

Looney, Dennis. “Recent Trends in Ariosto Criticism: Intricati rami e aer fosco.” Modern Philology 88, no. 2 (November 1990): 153-65.

Studies the criticism of Albert Russell Ascoli, Peter V. Marinelli, and Marianne Shapiro to establish the direction of modern critical theories on Orlando furioso.

MLN 103, no. 1 (January 1988).

Entire issue devoted to studies Orlando furioso by such critics as Peter V. Marinelli, Peter DeSa Wiggins, and Robert J. Rodini.

Quint, David. Introduction. to Cinque Canti: Five Cantos, by Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Alexander Sheers and David Quint, pp. 1-44. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Argues that Cinque Canti is a distinct and important though incomplete work by Ariosto.

Additional information on Ariosto's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: European Writers, Vol. 2; Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 6; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 42;Reference Guide to World Literature, Ed. 2, 3.