Orgoglio

{{short description|Literary character}} {{About|literary character|the television series|Orgoglio (TV series)|the Italian film|Pride (1938 film)}} '''Orgoglio''' is a literary character in Edmund Spenser's famous epic ''The Faerie Queene''. He appears in the seventh canto of Book One as a beast and attacks the main character, Redcrosse, who symbolizes the ultimate Christian knight, during a moment of weakness. "Orgoglio" means "pride" in Italian. In chapter IX of ''Waverley'', by Sir Walter Scott, the manor of Bradwardyne is compared to the castle of Orgoglio.

==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite book|title=The Cambridge Companion to Spenser|first=Andrew|last=Hadfield|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2001|isbn=0-521-64570-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani0000unse_r8f4/page/212 212]|url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani0000unse_r8f4/page/212}} * {{cite book|chapter=The Faerie Queen|author=Edmund Spenser|title=The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Volume B.}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/fqueen|title=The Faerie Queene}} SparkNotes * {{cite web|url=http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orgoglio|title=Definition of Orgoglio|date=2 June 2024 }} Wiktionary

==Further reading== * {{cite book|title=Spenser's Supreme Fiction|first=Jon A. |last=Quitslund|publisher=University of Toronto Press|date=2001|isbn=0-8020-3505-1}} * {{cite journal|author=S. K. Heninger Jr.|title=The Orgoglio Episode in ''The Faerie Queene''|journal=English Literary History|volume=26|issue=2|pages=171–187|date=June 1959|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|doi=10.2307/2872024 |jstor=2872024}} * {{cite journal|title=Spenser's Erotic Drama: The Orgoglio Episode|author=J. W. Schroeder|date=1962|journal=English Literary History|volume=29|pages=140–159|doi=10.2307/2871852 |jstor=2871852 }}

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