Ariosto
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈrjɔs.to/, /a.riˈɔs.to/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɔsto
- Hyphenation: A‧riò‧sto, A‧ri‧ò‧sto
Proper noun
Ariosto m or f by sense
- a surname
- Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet
- 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Forget Me Not 1833 (in English), Giulietta—A Tale of the Forteeenth Century:
- The young countess touched her lute—it had no music; she gathered flowers—they had no sweetness; she turned to the fairy page of Ariosto—but she took no interest in his knights or dames; and at length the day was spent ere she had finished pacing the hall, and imagining all the possible and impossible dangers that could befall Carrara.
References
- ^ Ariosto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)