Part 1
Compare Lydia’s story in Canto 34 of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso to Francesca’s story in Canto 5 of Dante’s Inferno, and draw some conclusions about the purpose of these stories in the larger poem. What is Ariosto saying about love compared to Dante? How sympathetic are the authors (or characters) to the stories that they hear, and why? Are there details of the stories take on more significance when you put the two stories side by side? Etc.
Part 2
Toward the end of Astolfo’s trip to the moon, St. John discusses other poets and how poetry can help us remember people and events but can also bias our views of people and events. Why do you think that Ariosto included this section in his poem, and what does it say about Ariosto’s own poem?
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