Orlando Furioso and the fantastique

Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica (1819) – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Orlando Furioso (1877) – Gustave Doré

 

Orlando Furioso (“Mad Orlando” or “The Madness of Orlando” ) is an epic poem written by Ludovico Ariosto in 1516. It is a “gionta”, a sequel, to Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love), but it is quite distant from the other work in that it does not preserve the humanistic concepts of knight errantry.

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