Ariosto e il Settecento. Un sondaggio pariniano

Looking at selected passages, this essay explores the ways in which Orlando Furioso is re-used within Il Giorno: from stylistic elements denouncing the classicist origin of Parini's textual method to allusions to Ariostean episodes, in a cultivated game of masking and revelation, with special focus on two similes in which the reference to the source is more explicit. Defined by Parini as a “poem / novel”, Furioso conjures up a fantastic and dynamic world in stark contrast to the repetitive day of the young nobleman, producing parodic effects in keeping with the ethical engagement of the short poem.