Editing Orlando Furioso (section)

==Ariosto and Boiardo==
Ariosto's poem is a sequel to [[Matteo Maria Boiardo]]'s ''[[Orlando Innamorato]]'' (''Orlando in Love'').<ref>{{Cite web |title=Structure and Ideology in Boiardo's Orlando innamorato {{!}} Andrea di Tommaso |url=https://uncpress.org/book/9780807891230/structure-and-ideology-in-boiardos-orlando-innamorato/ |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=University of North Carolina Press |language=en-US}}</ref> One of Boiardo's main achievements was his fusion of the [[Matter of France]] (the tradition of stories about [[Charlemagne]] and paladins such as [[Roland]]) with the [[Matter of Britain]] (the legends about [[King Arthur]] and his knights). The latter contained the magical elements and love interest that were generally lacking in the more austere and warlike poems about [[Carolingian]] heroes.

Ariosto continued to mix these elements in his poem as well as adding material derived from [[Classics|Classical]] sources.<ref>Reynolds pp. 53–67</ref> However, Ariosto has an ironic tone rarely present in Boiardo, who treated the ideals of chivalry much more seriously.<ref>''The Reader's Encyclopedia'' (ed. Benet, 1967)</ref> In ''Orlando Furioso'', instead of the chivalric ideals which were no longer current in the 16th century, a [[Humanism|humanistic]] conception of man and life is vividly celebrated under the appearance of a fantastical world, notwithstanding his early modern approaches to feminism.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shemek |first=D. |date=1 January 2018 |title=Ariostan Armory: Feminist Responses to the Orlando Furioso |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/697012/pdf |access-date=29 May 2024 |archive-date=27 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427033946/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/697012/pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>