# Ludovico Ariosto

> He wrote the epic that turned knights and quests into comedy. Orlando Furioso spent sixteen years growing into a satirical monster — tens of thousands of lines mocking the very chivalric tradition it pretended to celebrate.

*Italian poet (1474–1533)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** 1474-09-08
- **Died:** 1533-07-06
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Ludovico Ariosto was born in northern Italy on 8 September 1474 and spent much of his career as a poet in service to noble patrons. In 1516 he published Orlando Furioso, picking up where Matteo Maria Boiardo's unfinished Orlando Innamorato left off — Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks battling Saracens across a maze of sideplots. He composed it in ottava rima and laced the whole thing with narrative commentary, revising and expanding it until 1532. The poem became less a romance than a satire, its chivalric trappings undercut by wit. Separately, Ariosto coined the Italian term umanesimo — humanism — to describe a philosophy centered on human strength and potential rather than subordination to God, a coinage that helped anchor Renaissance thought. He died on 6 July 1533.

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## Topics
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