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    Angelica is a princess in the epic poem Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo. She reappears in the saga's continuation, Orlando furioso by Ludovico...
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    Orlando furioso (Italian pronunciation: [orˈlando fuˈrjoːzo, -so]; The Frenzy of Orlando) is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted...
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    are two characters from the 16th-century Italian epic Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Angelica was an Asian princess at the court of Charlemagne who...
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    Orlando (RV 728), usually known in modern times as Orlando furioso (Italian pronunciation: [orˈlando fuˈrjoːzo, -so]), is an opera in three acts by Antonio...
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    Boiardo's Orlando is considered a notable work of art. The story of Angelica's struggles and Orlando's pursuit were continued in Orlando Furioso by Ludovico...
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    from Ariosto's epic Orlando Furioso, in which the Muslim knight Roger (Italian: Ruggiero) saves the pagan princess Angelica from a sea monster. The motif...
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    Bradamante (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    heroine in two epic poems of the Renaissance: Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Since the poems exerted...
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    Orlando furioso RV 819 (Italian pronunciation: [orˈlando fuˈrjoːzo, -so], Teatro San Angelo, Venice 1714) is a three-act opera surviving in manuscript...
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  • ring name once was Angelica Angelica is a princess of Cathay in Orlando innamorato (1483–1495) and Orlando Furioso (1516–1532) Angelica Jones, real name...
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    Freeing Angelica or Ruggiero Freeing Angelica is an 1819 painting by the French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, inspired by Orlando Furioso by Ariosto...
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    Ferragut (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    Historia Caroli Magni, and Italian epics, such as Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. In the tales, he was portrayed...
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    Angelica and the Hermit is a 1626–1628 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It shows an episode from canto 8 of Ludovico Ariosto's poem Orlando Furioso. It...
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    from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's L'Orlando after Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, which was also the source of Handel's operas Alcina and Ariodante...
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    Roland (redirect from Orlando (character))
    century. Two masterpieces of Italian Renaissance poetry, the Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso (by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto respectively)...
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    Renaud de Montauban (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Rinaldo is the brother of Bradamante. Rinaldo and his cousin Orlando (Roland) both fall in love with the beautiful Angelica and a...
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  • Sacripante (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    underneath him by the cunning thief Brunello. In Orlando furioso he offers to become the wandering Angelica's protector but she evades him. Sacripante is also...
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  • Orlando generoso is an opera of Agostino Steffani composed to a libretto by Ortensio Mauro after Ariosto's Orlando furioso. The opera was written in 1691...
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    Hippogriff (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    invented at the beginning of the 16th century by Ludovico Ariosto in his Orlando Furioso. Within the poem, the hippogriff is a steed born of a mare and a griffin—something...
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    Ruggiero (character) (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    leading character in the Italian romantic epics Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Ruggiero had originally...
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  • epics Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. In the story it is the walled city and fortress where Angelica and...
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  • (Tchaikovsky) Orfeo, Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) (originally for castrato) Orlando, Orlando Furioso (Vivaldi) Orsini, Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti) Polina, The Queen...
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    Alessandro Guglielmi in 1771), itself inspired by Ariosto's epic poem Orlando furioso. The opera was described as a dramma eroicomico and the plot mixes...
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  • Agrican (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    Italian chivalric poem Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo. His primary appearance in the story is when he besieges Angelica in the castle of Albracca...
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  • Zerbino (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    Zerbino is a fictional character of the Matter of France. He appears in Orlando Furioso, the 16th-century Italian romantic epic by Ludovico Ariosto. He is...
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  • (Málaga). His major work is the Primera parte de la Angélica (1586), a continuation of the Orlando furioso. The second part of the poem was long believed to...
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    Ristori's Orlando furioso ([orˈlando fuˈrjoːso; -oːzo]), an opera that the Vivaldi "impresa" had very successfully staged in 1713. Orlando finto pazzo...
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    Ariosto took the concept up into Orlando Furioso using it not once but twice: the rescue of Angelica by Ruggiero, and Orlando rescuing Olimpia. The monster...
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    Ludovico Ariosto's influential epic poem Orlando Furioso (1516–1532) features a pagan princess named Angelica who at one point is in exactly the same situation...
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  • Brunello (character) (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    is a character in the Italian romantic epics Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Brunello is a dwarf and...
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    Gano. Orlando Furioso (literally, Furious or Enraged Orlando, or Roland), includes Orlando's cousin, the paladin Rinaldo, who, like Orlando, is also...
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