Description:This volume collects papers on the reception of Ariosto in the German cultural area. While Ariosto was already celebrated in 16th century France as the modern Virgil or Homer, broader engagement with Ariosto in Germany only began in the 18th century. The fact that it was August von Platen who first hailed Ariosto as the new Homer is an indication of the delayed arrival of this type of popular literature in post-Reformation Germany.