_Orlando Furioso_ and _Divina Commedia_--Ariosto expresses the Renaissance as Dante the Middle Ages--Definition of Romantic, Heroic, Burlesque, Heroic-comic, and Satiric Poems--Ariosto's Bias toward Romance--Sense of Beauty in the _Cinque Cento_--Choice of Boiardo's unfinished Theme--The Propriety of this Choice--Ariosto's Irony and Humor--The Subject of the _Furioso_--Siege of Paris--Orlando's Madness--Loves of Ruggiero and Bradamante--Flattery of the House of Este--The World of Chivalry--Ariosto's Delight in the Creatures of his Fancy--Close Structure of the Poem--Exaggeration of Motives--Power of Picture-painting--Faculty of Vision--Minute Description--Rhetorical Amplification--Rapidity o…
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