Orgoglio

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

Orgoglio is a literary character in Edmund Spenser's famous epic The Faerie Queene. He appears in the seventh canto 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. p. 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 (The Johns Hopkins University Press) 26 (2): 171–187. JSTOR 2872024.
J. W. Schroeder (1962). "Spenser's Erotic Drama: The Orgoglio Episode". English Literary History 29: 140–159.