Astolfo (character) – Wikipedia

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Astolfo He is a character of the chivalric poems characterized by a great spirit of adventure, wit and attitudes to the limit of the bizarre.

Already present in some episodes of the Morpine by Luigi Pulci, however it was with the Orlando in love by Matteo Maria Boiardo and even more with the Furious Orlando by Ludovico Ariosto who became a memorable character. Paladin of Charlemagne originally from England, he is a fiery and impulsive individual, the protagonist of amazing companies. In the Furioso it is the character that more than any other remains involved in incredible adventures, such as the flight on hippogrifo to find the hindsight lost by Orlando and ended up on the moon. [first]

Derives from the Germanic name Haistulf , name composed of Haist (of uncertain meaning, perhaps “furious”, “violent”) or perhaps ast (“auction”, “spear”), e vulf (“wolf”) [2]

  • Canto VI, 27 and SS.: It is found by Ruggiero on the island of the Maga Alcina (according to some Japan) transformed into a myrtle (episode inspired by that of Polidoro in the Aeneid and that of Pier della Vigna in Dante’s Hell) .
  • VI, 46: it is specified that it was the alcina lover.
  • VIII, 16: recovers the human form by the work of the sorceress Melissa.
  • XV, 13: receives two prodigious gifts: a horn that infuses terror in those who listen to it and an enchanted book.
  • XV, 38: Caligorante defeated and kills Orrilo.
  • XVIII, 96; XIX, 43: goes with Sansonetto to the carousel of Damascus.
  • XIX, 54: he arrives with his companions in Alessandria.
  • XX, 66: in this city he recognizes his cousin Guidon wild.
  • XX, 87; XXII, 4: he puts the women of Alexandria with the Failed Horn.
  • XXII, 7: His trips to London and France.
  • XXII, 13: reaches the enchanted palace of Atlas.
  • XXII, 23: breaks the spell and tame the hippogrifo.
  • XXXIII, 96: Fly to Ethiopia on hippogrifo.
  • XXXIII, 119; XXXIV, 4: Care with the Horn Le Arpie who infest the canteen to King Senapo, known in the West as a priest Gianni.
  • XXXIV, 4: reaches the door of hell.
  • XXXIV, 7: Lidia’s shadow tells him his unfortunate love story.
  • XXXIV, 46: closes the harpies in a spelled (they symbolize the evils that afflict Italy in the poem).
  • XXXIV, 48: reaches the earthly paradise and finds Enoch, Elia and San Giovanni Evangelista.
  • XXXIV, 68: aboard the wagon of Elia crosses the sphere of fire and reaches the moon.
  • XXXIV, 81-87: one of the most famous episodes of Furious Orlando : on the moon finds everything that has been lost on earth (including i verses that in the laude of the Mr. , autobiographical stocked), and then starts again with an ampoule containing Orlando’s hindsight.
  • XXXVIII, 24: returns the view to King Senapo.
  • XXXVIII, 29: imprisoned the well -known wind in one OTRE.
  • XXXVIII, 33: Change the rains in horses.
  • XXXIX, 57: returns the hindsight to Orlando.
  • XL, 14: Biserta conquers.
  • Xliv, 23: Ripe noubiines al learold the countryside and back in France.

«On June four inaugurated in Ferrara the Ariosteo year. It is a good opportunity for another training flight and to attend the Palio di San Giorgio who gathered many of my friends ”

( Words of Italo Balbo pronounced in Ferrara before his departure for Orbetello in 1933 where he was preparing for the decades of the tenth anniversary. [3] )

Already before the 1933 celebrations for the IV Centenary Ariosco in Ferrara Italo Balbo, known not only as a hierarch and fascist quadrumviro but also as aviator, he loved to compare himself to mythical characters, perhaps linked to the golden age of the Este in Ferrara. And the character who fascinated him most was the Astolfo described by Ludovico Ariosto.

“The shadow of the great paladin forgives me if … I took his place on the rump of the hippogrifo and I left here and there by scrolling.”

( Still Italo Balbo comparing herself to the hero of the chivalrous poem. [4] )
  • The song Astolfo of Negramaro is focused on his figure.
  • Astolfo is also one of the characters in the novels and the anime of Fate/Apocrypha, where he is depicted as a boy with androgynous features.
  • The song I want to contained in the first album of the Banco del Mutuo Rescue has the text inspired by Astolfo.
  • The Florentine publishing house Clinamen has named one of its necklaces “The Astolfo Library”.

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