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Orlando Furioso

Name: Orlando Furioso
Author: Lodovico Ariosto
ISBN: 9781249995852

by Ludovico Ariosto

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Overview

Ariosto's Orlando Furioso 1532 is the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France, a brilliantly witty parody of the medieval romances, and a fitting monument to the court society of the Italian Renaissance which gave it birth. In a kaleidoscope of scenes and emotions, three principal stories are developed: the love of Orlando for Angelica; the war between the Franks and Saracens; and the love of Ruggiero, a Saracen, for Bradamant, a Christian. Enlivening and unifying the whole work is the vital personality of the author, endlessly teasing his readers and dropping casual asides about his contemporaries. Though highly serious in purpose and sophisticated in design, Orlando Furioso displays to the full Ariosto's remarkable sense of the absurd. This unabridged prose translation faithfully captures the narrative entire and renders meaning in its lightest shadings.

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Orlando Furioso; Volume 3 Of Orlando Furioso: Poema In Ottavia Rima; Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto

Villeneuve, 1785