This author requests to find his son a Greek tutor in the sixth of his seven epistolary “Satires.” This author adapted a tale from the Arabian Nights to describe a handsome man who falls ill after discovering his wife’s infidelity but recovers after seeing the queen make love to a dwarf. After encountering Merlin’s tomb inside a cave, one of this author’s characters recovers an enchanted ring with the help of the sorceress Melissa. In one of the many references to this author’s most famous work in Don Quixote, Sacripante is falsely cited as the winner of the helmet of Mambrino. This author created a character who aids the ancestors of his patrons, the Este family, by recovering a flask full of wits from the moon. Astolfo flies a hippogriff in that epic poem by this author, which is titled for a character whose love for Angelica causes him to go insane. For 10 points, name this Italian Renaissance poet of Orlando Furioso. ■END■
ANSWER: Ludovico Ariosto
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