Italian chivalric epic and romance afterlife, including Ariosto's Orlando tradition and the playful, unstable inheritance of medieval story.
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Orlando Furioso — Ludovico Ariosto — Orlando Furioso — Ludovico Ariosto's Renaissance epic (1532), translated by William Stewart Rose (1823): the madness of Orlando, Angelica and Medoro, the war of Charlemagne against the Saracens, Ruggiero and Bradamante, and the vast chivalric imagination of the Italian Renaissance.