11 Facts About Ottava rima

Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin.

For instance, ottava rima was used by Poliziano and by Boiardo in his 1486 epic poem Orlando Innamorato.

In English, ottava rima first appeared in Elizabethan translations of Tasso and Ariosto.

Ottava rima quickly produced Beppo, his first poem to use the form.

Ottava rima thought he was a kind of living mythAnd hence deserving of ottava rima, The scheme that Ariosto juggled with, Apt for a lecherous defective dreamer.

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In Germany ottava rima occurred not so often as in Italy, but was used in long works.

Ottava rima was very popular in the Polish literature of the 17th century, which was under strong influence of Italian poetry.

Poems written in ottava rima are usually translated into Polish in the same form.

In Slovenian literature ottava rima was used by France Preseren, the greatest romantic poet, sometimes, among others, in Krst pri Savici, that is considered to be a national epic of Slovenian people.

In Swedish poetry ottava rima was used by Esaias Tegner in his epic Frithiof's Saga.

In Finnish literature ottava rima was used by Eino Leino in some parts of book Juhana Herttuan ja Catharina Jagellonican lauluja.