Ariosto, Ludovico (Arios`to, Ludovico) , an illustrious Italian poet, born at Reggio, in Lombardy; spent his life chiefly in Ferrara, mostly in poverty; his great work “Orlando Furioso” (q.v.), published the first edition, in 40 cantos, in 1516, and the third in 46 cantos, in 1532; the work is so called from the chief subject of it, the madness of Roland induced by the loss of his lady-love through her marriage to another (1474‒1532).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ari`on * Ariovistus