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Orlando Furioso

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  • Although the poem is called Orlando Furioso, Orlando's madness occupies a very small part of it, the principal threads of the story being Orlando's love for Angelica and his consequent madness, the wars of Charlemagne, and the loves of Bradamant and Rogero.

    National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

  • The Orlando Furioso is a sequel to Boiardo's Orlando Innamorata, Ariosto taking up the story at the end of that poem.

    National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

  • MORGANA, enchantress, the Lady of the Lake in "Orlando Furioso," same as Morgane Le Fay in tales of Arthur

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • MORGANA, enchantress, the Lady of the Lake in "Orlando Furioso," same as Morgane Le Fay in tales of Arthur

    The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • MORGANA, enchantress, the Lady of the Lake in "Orlando Furioso," same as Morgane Le Fay in tales of Arthur

    Legends of Charlemagne Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • The hippogriff is the steed that Ruggiero rides to save the naked maiden Angelica in Ariosto's epic poem Orlando Furioso.

    Angelica Lost and Found by Russell Hoban - review Patrick Ness 2010

  • "The Imaginative World of Ariosto" showcases the Renaissance artwork that inspired Italian court poet Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), best known for his epic poem, "Roland Furieux" (Orlando Furioso).

    Time Off 2009

  • I remember once to have read in some book that a man named Orlando Furioso used to drive a kind of winged monster through the air, fly over any countries he liked, kill unaided vast numbers of men and giants, and such like fancies, which from the point of view of reason are obviously absurd.

    Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

  • Orlando Furioso,” and, what very seldom happens, the last of the poems is without dispute the best.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • A dreamscape representing Roger and Angelica, the knight in shining armor and the maiden-in-distress from Orlando Furioso, by my favorite phantast Redon, painted with the same palette as La coquille 1912.

    Eye candy #2 « Jahsonic 2007

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