ARIOSTO'S DAY
(1474-1533)
Sept.8

Verses of history
accountable to prosper
here as a birthday for Ariosto
who writing with ferocity
"Orlando Furioso"
expected to take a chance
in an Italian visionary plan
from a poetry
on Charlemagne and Saracen
helped create the Renaissance
of the human and nonsectarian
in an enlightenment
for Gentile, Jew and Christian
and inspire a Shakespearean view
in the "Taming of the Shrew".