Orgoglio

Orgoglio is a literary character in Edmund Spenser's famous epic "The Faerie Queen". 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.

References

• Andrew Hadfield (2001). The Cambridge Companion to Spenser. Cambridge University Press. pp. 212. ISBN 0521645700. 
• Edmund Spenser. "The Faerie Queen". The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Volume B.. 
• "The Faerie Queen". http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/fqueen.  Sparknotes
• "Definition of Orgoglio". http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orgoglio.  Wiktionary

Further reading

• Jon A. Quitslund (2001). Spenser's Supreme Fiction. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802035051. 
• 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.