diff --git a/ontology/graphs/orlando-furioso.ttl b/ontology/graphs/orlando-furioso.ttl new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6489ba3 --- /dev/null +++ b/ontology/graphs/orlando-furioso.ttl @@ -0,0 +1,551 @@ +@base . +@prefix monomyth: . +@prefix dcterms: . +@prefix owl: . +@prefix rdf: . +@prefix rdfs: . +@prefix schema: . +@prefix void: . +@prefix wd: . +@prefix xsd: . + +# ============================================================================== +# ORLANDO FURIOSO (Epic Poem, 1532) +# ============================================================================== + + a monomyth:NarrativeWork, + schema:Book ; + rdfs:label "Orlando Furioso"@en ; + dcterms:title "Orlando Furioso"@en ; + dcterms:created "1532"^^xsd:gYear ; + dcterms:creator "Ludovico Ariosto" ; + schema:countryOfOrigin wd:Q38 ; + schema:genre "Epic Poetry"@en, + "Chivalric Romance"@en ; + owl:sameAs wd:Q48922 ; + monomyth:interpretedBy ; + rdfs:comment """The great Renaissance epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto, structured around the wars +between Charlemagne's Christian paladins and the Saracen armies while constantly interrupting and +interweaving multiple narrative threads centered on heroes such as Orlando, Ruggiero, Bradamante, +and Astolfo."""@en . + +# --- Monomyth Expressions -------------- + + a monomyth:MonomythExpression ; + rdfs:label "Ruggiero's Hero's Journey in Orlando Furioso"@en ; + rdfs:comment """A specific interpretation of the monomyth structure as it is realized in the +narrative of 'Orlando Furioso', focusing on the character Ruggiero's fragmented and repeatedly delayed +journey from enchanted Saracen knight to Christian convert and dynastic founder of the Este lineage +through his union with Bradamante."""@en ; + monomyth:interprets ; + monomyth:hasHero ; + monomyth:hasCharacter , + , + , + , + , + , + , + , + ; + monomyth:hasStageRealization , + , + , + , + , + , + , + , + , + , + , + , + , + , + , + , + . + +# --- Characters ----------------------- + + a monomyth:Character ; + rdfs:label "Ruggiero"@en ; + rdfs:comment """A Saracen knight raised under the magical protection of the sorcerer Atlante, +whose destiny is divided between Islamic and Christian civilization. Constantly displaced through +enchanted spaces, romantic temptations, and dynastic prophecies, he gradually evolves from a passive +object of magical manipulation into the heroic founder of the Este lineage through his conversion and +marriage to Bradamante."""@en ; + monomyth:heroOf ; + monomyth:characterOf ; + monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Hero ; + owl:sameAs wd:Q1163476 . + + a monomyth:Character ; + rdfs:label "Bradamante"@en ; + rdfs:comment """The Christian warrior maiden destined to marry Ruggiero and generate the future +Este dynasty. More than a romantic interest, she repeatedly acts as the moral and structural force +that redirects the hero toward his providential destiny whenever enchantment, delay, or hesitation +threaten to dissolve his trajectory."""@en ; + monomyth:characterOf ; + monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Ally ; + owl:sameAs wd:Q1163427 . + + a monomyth:Character ; + rdfs:label "Alcina"@en ; + rdfs:comment """The seductive enchantress who traps knights inside a realm of sensual pleasure, +transforming abandoned lovers into beasts, plants, and stones once her desire fades. Through erotic +captivity and magical illusion, she represents the most complete temptation away from Ruggiero's heroic +and dynastic destiny."""@en ; + monomyth:characterOf ; + monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Shapeshifter, + monomyth:Shadow . + + a monomyth:Character ; + rdfs:label "Melissa"@en ; + rdfs:comment """The benevolent sorceress aligned with Bradamante's dynastic future, who repeatedly +intervenes to free Ruggiero from magical imprisonment and guide him toward conversion, marriage, and +historical fulfillment."""@en ; + monomyth:characterOf ; + monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Mentor, + monomyth:Ally . + + a monomyth:Character ; + rdfs:label "Atlante"@en ; + rdfs:comment """The powerful magician who raises Ruggiero and desperately attempts to prevent the +hero's prophesied conversion and death by trapping him inside increasingly elaborate systems of magical +protection and illusion."""@en ; + monomyth:characterOf ; + monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Mentor, + monomyth:ThresholdGuardian, + monomyth:Shadow ; + owl:sameAs wd:Q3628218 . + + a monomyth:Character ; + rdfs:label "Logistilla"@en ; + rdfs:comment """The wise enchantress whose orderly island opposes Alcina's domain of sensual +illusion. Under her guidance, Ruggiero receives ethical instruction and preparation before returning +from magical suspension into the wider world of knightly action and destiny."""@en ; + monomyth:characterOf ; + monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Mentor ; + owl:sameAs wd:Q16573342 . + + a monomyth:Character ; + rdfs:label "Hippogriff"@en ; + rdfs:comment """The marvelous hybrid beast that violently transports Ruggiero across geographic and +ontological boundaries, repeatedly functioning as the unpredictable vehicle through which the hero is +removed from ordinary warfare and propelled into enchanted adventure."""@en ; + monomyth:characterOf ; + monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Herald . + + a monomyth:Character ; + rdfs:label "Astolfo"@en ; + rdfs:comment """The eccentric Christian knight whose magical journeys and interventions repeatedly +intersect with Ruggiero's path, helping dismantle enchantments and restore order to fragmented heroic +trajectories."""@en ; + monomyth:characterOf ; + monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Ally, + monomyth:Trickster ; + owl:sameAs wd:Q1263627 . + + a monomyth:Character ; + rdfs:label "Charlemagne"@en ; + rdfs:comment """The Christian emperor whose imperial world ultimately receives and legitimizes +Ruggiero after the hero's conversion and defection from the Saracen sphere."""@en ; + monomyth:characterOf ; + monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:ThresholdGuardian ; + owl:sameAs wd:Q3044 . + +# --- Stage Realizations --------------- + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Carried away from Albracca"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheCallToAdventure ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 1 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """During the chaos of war around Albracca, Ruggiero loses control +of the Hippogriff and is violently carried away through the sky into unknown territories. This forced +displacement abruptly tears him out of the ordinary rhythm of martial conflict and introduces him into +Ariosto's wider universe of enchantment, wandering, and destiny."""@en ; + monomyth:fitNote """The call is enacted as literal physical abduction rather than as invitation, +omen, or summons, which gives it an unusual coercive force absent from most monomyth manifestations. +The involuntary flight led by the hippogriff initiates the hero's separation from stable identity and +begins his long passage through magical and spiritual transformation."""@en . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Enchanted Delays"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:RefusalOfTheCall ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:ModerateFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 2 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Rather than explicitly refusing his destiny, Ruggiero repeatedly +becomes suspended inside enchanted systems designed to delay or dissolve his heroic development. His +captivity within Alcina's island of pleasure and Atlante's illusory palace traps him in cycles of +forgetfulness, sensual distraction, and temporal stagnation. These recurring detours function as a +fragmented refusal in which the hero continually postpones the irreversible transformation awaiting +him."""@en ; + monomyth:hasNarrativeDivergence . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Alcina's Seduction"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:WomanAsTheTemptress ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:PerfectFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 3 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Within Alcina's enchanted island where the Hippogryph deposits +him, Ruggiero abandons martial honor and heroic purpose to live in sensual luxury under the spell of +the sorceress. The enchantress reduces the hero to a passive object of pleasure, isolating him from +memory, duty, and destiny while concealing the monstrous reality beneath her seductive beauty. Here, +erotic enchantment itself becomes the mechanism threatening to erase the hero's transformative path."""@en ; + monomyth:hasSequentialDivergence . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Melissa's Ring"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:SupernaturalAid ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:PerfectFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 4 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Disguised as the magician Atlante, Melissa approaches Ruggiero +inside Alcina's enchanted domain and delivers the magic ring capable of dispelling every illusion. +Through this supernatural object, the hero suddenly perceives the horrifying truth behind the island's +beauty and recovers the capacity for autonomous judgment. The ring functions as the quintessential +Campbellian talisman: a magical aid that allows the hero to pierce deception and continue the journey +toward his destined transformation."""@en ; + monomyth:hasSequentialDivergence . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Departure from Logistilla"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheCrossingOfTheFirstThreshold ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 5 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """After escaping Alcina's island, Ruggiero reaches the rational +and disciplined realm of Logistilla, where he receives instruction regarding virtue, self-control, +and destiny and also learns to control the Hippogryph. His departure from this protected environment +marks the decisive threshold crossing into Ariosto's unstable world of wandering adventures, martial +tests, and dynastic responsibility. The hero leaves behind passive enchantment and begins acting within +the larger historical movement of the poem."""@en . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Atlante's Palace"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheBellyOfTheWhale ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:ModerateFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 6 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Inside Atlante's enchanted palace, knights endlessly pursue +phantoms corresponding to their deepest desires while losing all stable orientation and identity. +Ruggiero enters the palace having glimpsed an apparition of Bradamante within its corridors, and loses +himself entirely in the labyrinth of his own longing. The hero becomes absorbed into this closed system +of illusion where time, purpose, and heroic progress collapse into repetition. The palace functions +as a symbolic dissolution of the self, temporarily swallowing the hero inside a magical labyrinth from +which genuine transformation can occur only through escape and disillusionment."""@en ; + monomyth:hasNarrativeDivergence . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Breaking from Atlante"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:AtonementWithTheFather ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 7 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Ruggiero's relationship with Atlante is defined by the tension +between loving protection and spiritual imprisonment. The magician repeatedly attempts to shield the +hero from his prophesied death by enclosing him inside magical systems that prevent maturity, +conversion, and marriage. The atonement occurs when Ruggiero ultimately escapes Atlante's authority, +accepting the risks of destiny rather than remaining suspended within paternal control and illusion."""@en ; + monomyth:hasSequentialDivergence . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Wandering Adventures"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheRoadOfTrials ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 8 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Astolfo frees Ruggiero from Atlante's castle and the hero's +journey can start again. Across dozens of cantos, Ruggiero passes through an immense series of duels, +rescues, voyages, magical confrontations, and knightly ordeals dispersed throughout Ariosto's fragmented +narrative structure. Each episode tests a different aspect of his identity: martial courage, loyalty, +erotic discipline, and spiritual direction. Rather than forming a linear sequence, these trials +accumulate through interruption and narrative suspension, gradually constructing the hero's readiness +for dynastic and religious transformation."""@en . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Bradamante's Destiny"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheMeetingWithTheGoddess ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 9 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Along all the trials, the hero is occasionally reunited with +his love interest. The recurring reunions between Ruggiero and Bradamante collectively constitute +the hero's encounter with the feminine principle that gives direction and ultimate meaning to his +journey. Bradamante is not a passive beloved awaiting rescue but a formidable warrior who has herself +descended into Merlin's cave and received the prophetic vision of their future dynasty. Through her, +Ruggiero perceives not only personal love but a transpersonal destiny, since the founding of the Este +lineage depends entirely on his successful transformation."""@en ; + monomyth:fitNote """The Meeting with the Goddess is not realized through a single decisive +encounter but through multiple interrupted reunions between Ruggiero and Bradamante dispersed across +the poem's battles and adventures. Ariosto's technique of entrelacement fragments the stage into +recurring moments of encounter, separation, and rediscovery."""@en ; + monomyth:hasSemioticDivergence . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Delayed Conversion"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:RefusalOfTheReturn ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:ModerateFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 10 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Even after repeated prophecies and encounters directing him +toward Christian conversion and dynastic destiny, Ruggiero continually postpones his definitive return +from enchantment and ambiguity. His hesitation unfolds across numerous cantos through detours, +interruptions, and deferred decisions that slow the transition from Saracen knight to Christian founder."""@en ; + monomyth:fitNote """The refusal emerges not as a single dramatic rejection but as a prolonged +resistance to irreversible transformation. Ruggiero delays reaching the transformative threshold itself +through a long accumulation of interruptions, enchantments, and postponed decisions of which he is +not always directly responsable."""@en ; + monomyth:hasSequentialDivergence . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Bradamante's Rescues"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:RescueFromWithout ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 11 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Throughout the poem, Bradamante and her allies repeatedly +intervene to recover Ruggiero from enchantment, hesitation, or narrative dispersion. Whether through +Melissa's magical assistance or Bradamante's direct actions, the hero is continually redirected toward +his providential role whenever he risks becoming trapped within illusion or passivity. The rescue +therefore operates as a sustained corrective force distributed throughout the narrative."""@en ; + monomyth:hasSequentialDivergence ; + monomyth:hasNarrativeDivergence . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Baptism and Conversion"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:Apotheosis ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:PerfectFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 12 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Ruggiero's baptism marks the symbolic death of his previous +identity and his elevation into a new spiritual condition. The hero abandons his former religious and +political affiliation to enter the Christian order associated with Bradamante and Charlemagne's court. +This transformation functions as a literal apotheosis in which personal conversion simultaneously +becomes dynastic destiny, historical legitimation, and metaphysical rebirth."""@en ; + monomyth:hasSemioticDivergence . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Este Foundation"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheUltimateBoon ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 13 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """The union in marriage between Ruggiero and Bradamante produces +a boon that extends beyond the hero's private fulfillment and into the future history of an entire +civilization. Their marriage establishes the mythical origin of the Este dynasty celebrated by +Ariosto's poem, transforming the hero's personal journey into the foundation of political continuity, +noble lineage, and collective cultural identity."""@en . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Flight from the Saracen camp"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheMagicFlight ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 14 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """After his baptism, Ruggiero must sever himself physically and +legally from the Saracen world that defined his identity. His withdrawal from their camp is not a +sudden magical escape, but a painful break from shared loyalty and military belonging. This departure +is enabled by a providential structure: the Saracen leader truce-breaking releases Ruggiero from his +oath of fealty. What appears as “magic” is instead the moral failure of his former leader, which +dissolves his obligations and opens the path back to the Christian world."""@en ; + monomyth:fitNote """The Magic Flight for Ruggiero doesn't concearn any physical chase but is +instead realised at the level of juridical and moral severance rather than physical flight, and its +'magic' is entirely structural — the providential dissolution of the oath rather than any literal +enchantment."""@en . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Defection to Christendom"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheCrossingOfTheReturnThreshold ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 15 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Ruggiero’s passage to the Christian side marks the full +crossing of the return threshold: a public defection and entry into the order of Christian knights. +This is not merely a change of allegiance but a translation of his Saracen martial identity into a +new theological and cultural register, where he appears as both convert and supreme exemplar. The +threshold itself is civilizational rather than physical, requiring him to carry his transformed self +wholly into a new historical role shaped by Merlin’s prophecy. By definitively abandoning his former +side, he reintegrates the experiences of wandering, enchantment, and crisis into a stable identity +recognized by Charlemagne’s world, completing the passage from divided existence to unified purpose."""@en . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Knight of the Two Worlds"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:MasterOfTheTwoWorlds ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:PerfectFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 16 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Ruggiero ultimately embodies a reconciliation between worlds +that are normally represented as irreconcilable enemies throughout the poem. As a Saracen knight who +converts to Christianity and founds a Christian dynasty without erasing his origins, he becomes a +literal bridge between civilizations, genealogies, and cultural identities. The hero masters both +worlds by integrating them into a new dynastic synthesis rather than annihilating one in favor of the +other."""@en . + + a monomyth:StageRealization ; + rdfs:label "Dynastic Peace"@en ; + monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:FreedomToLive ; + monomyth:involvesCharacter , + ; + monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:ModerateFit ; + monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 17 ; + monomyth:realizationDescription """Ruggiero achieves a provisional state of fulfillment through +marriage, dynastic foundation, and integration into the Christian world. Yet Ariosto's celebratory +closure remains partially shadowed by the later tradition surrounding the hero's premature death, +introducing instability into the monomyth's final promise of peaceful transcendence. Freedom is +therefore achieved historically and genealogically more than existentially or personally."""@en ; + monomyth:hasNarrativeDivergence . + +# --- Narrative Divergences ------------ + + a monomyth:NarrativeDivergence ; + rdfs:label "Dispersed Refusal divergence"@en ; + monomyth:divergenceOf ; + monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:RefusalOfTheCall ; + monomyth:divergenceRationale """Instead of presenting a single moment of hesitation immediately +following the call, Ariosto disperses the refusal across multiple enchanted episodes that collectively +suspend the hero's destiny. Ruggiero does not consciously reject transformation; rather, he repeatedly +forgets, postpones, or loses sight of it within systems of magical distraction. The divergence replaces +Campbell's concentrated psychological hesitation with a cyclical structure of narrative delay that +mirrors the poem's recursive and labyrinthine form."""@en . + + a monomyth:NarrativeDivergence ; + rdfs:label "Paternal Imprisonment divergence"@en ; + monomyth:divergenceOf ; + monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:TheBellyOfTheWhale ; + monomyth:divergenceRationale """The Belly of the Whale is usually an impersonal abyss initiating +the hero into symbolic death. In Orlando Furioso, however, Atlante's enchanted palace is a paternal +prison built out of protective love rather than cosmic fate or malice. Ruggiero's symbolic death +therefore becomes psychological rather than cosmic: he must free himself not from an external darkness +but from the foster-father's protective control that has shaped and confined his identity since +childhood."""@en . + + a monomyth:NarrativeDivergence ; + rdfs:label "Dispersed Rescue divergence"@en ; + monomyth:divergenceOf ; + monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:RescueFromWithout ; + monomyth:divergenceRationale """This stage subverts the 'Rescue from Without' by transforming a +singular narrative event into a dispersed, structural motif. While Campbell’s model envisions a final, +definitive intervention to pull the hero home, Ruggiero’s rescue is fragmented across the entire epic, +reflecting the 'entrelacement' structure of the poem. Each time the hero falls into enchantment or +loses his path due to his own passivity, Bradamante or her surrogate Melissa must intervene. The +'Rescue' thus loses its character as a final threshold crossing and becomes a constant, corrective +cycle of retrieval, highlighting a hero who is perpetually slipping away from his destiny and a +heroine who functions as his necessary external conscience."""@en . + + a monomyth:NarrativeDivergence ; + rdfs:label "Freedom through Dynasty divergence"@en ; + monomyth:divergenceOf ; + monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:FreedomToLive ; + monomyth:divergenceRationale """Campbell's final stage usually culminates in the hero's personal +liberation from fear and existential anxiety. In Orlando Furioso, this freedom is displaced from the +individual hero onto the historical future generated by his marriage and descendants. The narrative's +true stability belongs to the Este dynasty rather than to Ruggiero himself, whose later death continues +to shadow the apparent closure of the poem."""@en . + +# --- Sequential Divergences ----------- + + a monomyth:SequentialDivergence ; + rdfs:label "Temptress before Trials divergence"@en ; + monomyth:divergenceOf ; + monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:WomanAsTheTemptress ; + monomyth:divergenceRationale """In Campbell's canonical sequence, Woman as the Temptress appears +late in the Initiation act, after the hero has already undergone trials and encountered the Goddess. +In Orlando Furioso, however, the Alcina episode occurs almost immediately after the Call to Adventure, +before Ruggiero has achieved any heroic stability or encountered Bradamante. Ariosto deliberately +inverts the sequence so that the hero's first encounter with the feminine is seductive dissolution +rather than spiritual fulfillment, portraying Ruggiero as a hero initially trapped in enchantment and +dependent on external rescue rather than earned mastery."""@en . + + a monomyth:SequentialDivergence ; + rdfs:label "Aid after Temptation divergence"@en ; + monomyth:divergenceOf ; + monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:SupernaturalAid ; + monomyth:divergenceRationale """In Campbell's monomyth, Supernatural Aid appears before the hero's +trials, preparing him for the journey ahead. In Orlando Furioso, however, Melissa's intervention arrives +only after Ruggiero has already fallen into Alcina's enchantment and enacted a prolonged refusal of +destiny. The aid therefore functions not as preparation but as rescue: the magic ring becomes a remedy +for collapse rather than a tool for future trials, but it allows the hero to resume the journey to his +transformation."""@en . + + a monomyth:SequentialDivergence ; + rdfs:label "Atonement before Trials divergence"@en ; + monomyth:divergenceOf ; + monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:AtonementWithTheFather ; + monomyth:divergenceRationale """Typically, the Atonement with the Father stage typically serves +as the spiritual climax of the Initiation act, occurring after the hero has been tempered and purified +by the Road of Trials. As for Ruggiero's journey, his confrontation with Atlante's paternal authority +— and the subsequent dissolution of the magician's protective enchantments — occurs early in the +narrative sequence. This break from the father figure acts as a prerequisite that enables the +'Wandering Adventures' to begin, rather than being the reward for completing them. Ariosto thus +reorders the sequence so that the hero's liberation from paternal control is the starting point of +his independent knightly development rather than its final initiation."""@en . + + a monomyth:SequentialDivergence ; + rdfs:label "Refusal before Apotheosis divergence"@en ; + monomyth:divergenceOf ; + monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:RefusalOfTheReturn ; + monomyth:divergenceRationale """The Refusal of the Return normally follows the Apotheosis and +Ultimate Boon, when the hero resists re-entering ordinary life after transcendence. In Ruggiero’s case, +however, this sequence is displaced: his prolonged delay occurs before both baptism and the attainment +of the Boon. He refuses not the return from enlightenment, but the movement toward it, postponing the +transformation that would lead to conversion and marriage. What he clings to is not transcendence but +his existing Saracen identity, so the refusal becomes a resistance to ascent rather than descent."""@en . + + a monomyth:SequentialDivergence ; + rdfs:label "Rescue before Apotheosis divergence"@en ; + monomyth:divergenceOf ; + monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:RescueFromWithout ; + monomyth:divergenceRationale """In the standard monomythic sequence, the 'Rescue from Without' +occurs during the Return, serving to support a hero who has already achieved enlightenment or the +ultimate boon but is too exhausted or unwilling to cross back into the ordinary world. Ariosto +radically displaces this stage by making the rescue a recurring necessity long before Ruggiero’s +spiritual 'Apotheosis'. This reordering is central to the poem’s thematic focus on human frailty and +the power of love, as Ruggiero cannot reach his divine transformation on his own will but requires +multiple 'rescues' from Bradamante and Melissa."""@en . + +# --- Semiotic Divergences ------------- + + a monomyth:SemioticDivergence ; + rdfs:label "Warrior Goddess divergence"@en ; + monomyth:divergenceOf ; + monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:TheMeetingWithTheGoddess ; + monomyth:divergenceRationale """Campbell’s Meeting with the Goddess draws on the idea of the +divine feminine as cosmic totality, where her love reveals unity beneath division. In 'Orlando +Furioso', this role is reworked in Bradamante: a warrior knight who fights, wins duels, and pursues +Ruggiero with equal determination. Her love is unconditional in Campbell’s sense, as she never abandons +their destined union, but it is expressed through martial agency rather than nurturing receptivity. +Renaissance chivalric tradition thus replaces the sacred goddess with the female heroine, preserving +the structure of the archetype while transforming its semiotic form."""@en . + + a monomyth:SemioticDivergence ; + rdfs:label "Religious Apotheosis divergence"@en ; + monomyth:divergenceOf ; + monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:Apotheosis ; + monomyth:divergenceRationale """The Apotheosis stage generally operates through mythic revelation, +cosmic consciousness, or metaphysical transcendence. Ariosto translates this transformative elevation +into the specifically Christian language of baptism, conversion, and sacramental rebirth. The hero's +spiritual ascent is therefore expressed not through universal mythology but through the religious and +political semiotics of Renaissance Christendom."""@en . +