Fiction · 1516
Orlando Furioso
Lodovico Ariosto · translated by William Stewart Rose
Christian knights and Saracen armies, a hero driven mad by unrequited love, a flying hippogriff, and a trip to the moon to recover his lost wits — a sprawling chivalric romance that continues an earlier, unfinished epic and became one of the most influential adventure poems of the Italian Renaissance.
Lodovico Ariosto published Orlando Furioso in stages, completing his final revision in 1532; William Stewart Rose's English verse translation was first published in eight volumes between 1823 and 1831.
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Contents
- Note
- Introduction
- Canto 1
- Canto 2
- Canto 3
- Canto 4
- Canto 5
- Canto 6
- Canto 7
- Canto 8
- Canto 9
- Canto 10
- Canto 11
- Canto 12
- Canto 13
- Canto 14
- Canto 15
- Canto 16
- Canto 17
- Canto 18
- Canto 19
- Canto 20
- Canto 21
- Canto 22
- Canto 23
- Canto 24
- Canto 25
- Canto 26
- Canto 27
- Canto 28
- Canto 29
- Canto 30
- Canto 31
- Canto 32
- Canto 33
- Canto 34
- Canto 35
- Canto 36
- Canto 37
- Canto 38
- Canto 39
- Canto 40
- Canto 41
- Canto 42
- Canto 43
- Canto 44
- Canto 45
- Canto 46
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About the author
1474–1533 · Renaissance
Lodovico Ariosto (1474–1533) was an Italian poet, born in Reggio Emilia, who spent much of his career as a courtier and administrator to the ruling Este family of Ferrara, work he found uncongenial to his literary ambitions. His chivalric epic Orlando Furioso, continuing Matteo Maria Boiardo's unfinished Orlando Innamorato, occupied him through several revised editions, the last appearing in 1532, the year before his death.
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