Aril

a fleshy outgrowth from the surface of a produced after fertilisation, nnd often red or coloured so as to attract birds. Mace is aril] round the seed of the nutmeg. Arinos, 2 river of Brazil, South America, which in the Sierra Diamantino, and flowing N.W. the Jurusua or Tapajos, a tributary of the Arion, the “land sole,” a well known genus of Arion, « legendary musician of Greece, supposed have been born at Methymna in Lesbos some in the seventh century B.c. He invented the metre. On his voyage from Italy the of the ve el conspired to rob and kill him, granted him leave to play once more before he At the end of his performance he jumped and was picked up and. carried to by an admiring dolphin. The lute and dolphin were placed among the constellations. Ariosto, Lupovico, the illustrious Italian poet, at Reggio in Lombardy in 1474, his father governor of that place. The family migrated Ferrara, and the poet received some scanty from Cardinal D'Este and Alfonso Duke Ferrara, and was occasionally employed in and other busine , but his life was almost in poverty. His grand work, the rlande Furieoso, was published in its first shape in and was the result of ten years’ labour. plot profe es to give the story of the madne one of Charlemagne’s paladins—Roland or at the time that his liege lord was Agramant the Moor, beneath the walls of fell in love with the fair but heathen prince Cathay, Angelica, and was driven out of his by her marriage with Medoro. His wits not absolutely lost, but merely shut up for months in the moon. Astolpho visited that in Elijah’s chariot, and received from St. the mi ing portion of Orlando’s intellect stored in an urn. Orlando was then hand and foot, and, the urn being opened ) Aristides. under his nose, his reason returned to its seat. The happier loves of Koger and Brad am ante supply another long episode, and several minor actions are deftly interwoven with the main fabric fthe poem. In felicity of language and perfect mastery of the octosyllabic metre, Ariosto is superior to Ta o. He did not complete his work until 1532, but in the meantime he composed several dramatic pieces, sonnets, canzonets, and Latin lyrics. His death occurred in 1533, and a monument was raised to his memory at Ferrara, in the new church of St. Benedetto, whither his body was removed forty years later. ‘Titian preserved the poet's form and features in a remarkable portrait.