Orgoglio

This article is about literary character. For the television series, see Orgoglio (TV series). For the Italian film, see 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

• Hadfield, Andrew (2001). The Cambridge Companion to Spenser. Cambridge University Press. pp. 212. ISBN 0-521-64570-0.
• Edmund Spenser. "The Faerie Queen". The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Volume B.
• "The Faerie Queene". SparkNotes
• "Definition of Orgoglio". Wiktionary

Further reading

• Quitslund, Jon A. (2001). Spenser's Supreme Fiction. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-3505-1.
• S. K. Heninger Jr. (June 1959). "The Orgoglio Episode in The Faerie Queene". English Literary History. 26 (2). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 171–187. JSTOR 2872024.
• J. W. Schroeder (1962). "Spenser's Erotic Drama: The Orgoglio Episode". English Literary History. 29: 140–159.