Orsino is pursuing the same lady as he pursues throughout the play, until he finds she has married someone else. It's Olivia.
He's the Duke who's in love with Olivia. Viola, disguised as a boy, gets a job working for him, and ends up falling in love with him.
Orsino is in love with Olivia.
No Duke Orsino marrys Viola
Duke Orsino
Cesario, who was actually Viola in disguise.
The major conflict in the Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare is a love triangle between Orsino, Olivia, and Viola.
He asks her to go to Olivia and present his protestations of love. In this way he hoped to get her to marry him.
Orsino - Twelfth Night - was created in 1602.
Orsino
No Duke Orsino marrys Viola
Duke Orsino
Cesario, who was actually Viola in disguise.
The major conflict in the Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare is a love triangle between Orsino, Olivia, and Viola.
Orsino and Olivia Sebastian and Viola Sir Toby and Maria
The three suitors pursuing Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night are Orsino, Duke of Illyria; Sir Andrew Aguecheek; and Malvolio, Olivia's steward.
The love triangle in the novel Twelfth Night involves Duke Orsino, Olivia, and Viola (disguised as Cesario). Duke Orsino loves Olivia, who in turn falls in love with Viola (disguised as Cesario). Viola/Cesario, however, loves Duke Orsino, creating a complex web of unrequited love and mistaken identities.
That would be King Orsino of Orillia in the beginning of Twelfth Night.
He asks her to go to Olivia and present his protestations of love. In this way he hoped to get her to marry him.
Orsino in "Twelfth Night" defines male love as deep, passionate, and all-consuming. He speaks of it as a powerful force that overwhelms him and dictates his emotions and actions. Orsino's view of male love is characterized by its intensity and idealism.