Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The St. Joseph's Collegian, Vol. 20: March 15, 1932
The sixteenth century witnessed a poet, who, though innocent of his profound insight and great prophetic powers, foretold the political turmoil and social confusion that vexed the two 'last decades of the first part of the twentieth century. The process of vexing still goes on, and so does the truth 'of the prophecy. Could a better characterization of these times be sketched by any writer at present with the same degree of penetration and balanced judgment than does the Italian Swift, Ariosto, in his satiric Orlando Furioso With keen criticism he cuts into' the world of his day, which he considered mad, and flatters its frivolity with'humorous banter, quite as the world even now, loves to be flattered. The noble knight, whom Ariosto portrays. As losing his wits for nothing more than that his lady-love is drawn away from him by the charms of a roi'stering menial, very properly illustrates the loss of wit on' the part of the Big Fellows in every country of the world at present and that for no other reason than that one is afraid that the other will, in a menial way, beat him at his own game. Meanwhile the world continues sick and suffering.
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