furioso

[ fyoo r-ee-oh-soh; Italian foo-ryaw-zaw ]

/ ˌfyʊər iˈoʊ soʊ; Italian fuˈryɔ zɔ /

Music.

forceful; turbulent.

forcefully; turbulently.

Origin of furioso

1660–70, for an earlier sense; < Italian: literally, furious, equivalent to furi(a) fury + -oso -ous

furfuraldehyde, furfuran, furfurol, furiae, furies, furioso, furious, furkid, furl, furl., furlong

If the Furioso can be said to have constructive unity, the central subject is the love and marriage of Ruggiero.

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature |John Addington Symonds
The Furioso is written in the octave stanza, and originally consisted of forty cantos, afterwards increased to forty-six.

National Epics |Kate Milner Rabb
In the “Berneschi” we find nearly the same phenomenon that we already noticed with regard to Orlando furioso.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 8 |Various
It was partly this that made Shelley shrink with loathing from the Furioso.

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature |John Addington Symonds

The story of the Orlando Innamorato must be known before we can well understand that of the Furioso.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 |Henry Hallam

furioso

/ (ˌfjʊərɪˈəʊsəʊ) music /

in a frantically rushing manner

a passage or piece to be performed in this way

C19: Italian, literally: furious; see fury