SOURCE: Marinelli, Peter V. “Neoplatonist Art: Ariosto, His Contemporaries, and His Friends.” In Ariosto and Boiardo: The Origins of Orlando Furioso, pp. 103-24. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987.
In the following essay, Marinelli stresses the influence of Neoplatonist writers on the themes and structure of Orlando furioso.
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