His comic plays include one in which two servants arrange marriages for their masters and another based on the story of Peronella.  In addition to The Coffer and Lena, he wrote versions in both prose and verse of The Pretenders, which was a source for The Taming of the Shrew.  His purely poetic writings include seven satire
His comic plays include one in which two servants arrange marriages for their masters and another based on the story of Peronella.  In addition to The Coffer and Lena, he wrote versions in both prose and verse of The Pretenders, which was a source for The Taming of the Shrew.  His purely poetic writings include seven satires and the Five Cantos, which were left unfinished at his death in 1533 and are a partial sequel to his greatest work.  In that work, Marsilio goes back to Spain after the defeat of Agramante, while Ruggiero embraces Christianity to marry Bradamante.  FTP, name this Italian poet best known for an epic poem that continues an earlier work by Boiardo, Orlando Furioso.
His comic plays include one in which two servants arrange marriages for their masters and another based on the story of Peronella.  
Ludovico Ariosto