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Medieval values and tradition have found their way to the society of the sixteenth century, and especially the nostalgia which is reflected in the popularity of works that celebrate the cult of women, platonic love, and chivalry values. This paper will show the way in which Ludovico Ariosto, an intellectual courtier, feels the absurdity of ideals on which the elite circles are based and experiences the restraint of his own your own freedom exactly due to the established social conventions and the rules of the position he is subordinated to.World of clumsy knights, women that are winning in key battles, and especially a great representation of the Frankish warlord who for the first time in literature goes berserk is the background of an epic poem, and will be used to insert my own thoughts about the absurdity of the society in which it operates and to present a modern thought about the artist's freedom, in applying my own originality and inverting it through narrative techniques and through humour, especially in an ironic manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Giacomo Leopardi's poetics is intertwined with a number elements from romanticism and classicism, with the classical influence being a lot less familiar to the public, and also neglected by the literary critics. This influence, especially present during poet's early years, appears within the thematic, technical and philosophical aspect of his poetry. Leopardi's poetry is permeated with the contrast between the “old ones” and the “new ones“, i.e. the antique period whose great names served as inspiration to the poet in many of his poems, and his contemporaries. This paper will show that acceptance of Romanticism, as the dominant choice that his poetry refers to, is a product of a long journey of self-reflecting and development of a complex thought, whose base, from the poet's early beginnings until the very end, relies on the deep conviction of a personal philosophy that never completely rejects classicism, and which he develops through his biographical element, which is dominant in his rich literal opus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]