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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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    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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    Astolfo (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    Press, p. 168. Orlando Furioso VIII: 15–22 Orlando Furioso XV: 40–41 Orlando Furioso XV: 81–87 Orlando Furioso XXIII: 14–16 Orlando Furioso XXXIV: 87 Giuseppe...
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    epic Orlando Furioso (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and...
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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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    from Ariosto: Orlando furioso (1713) by Giovanni Alberto Ristori, Orlando Furioso (1714), with music by Ristori and by himself, and Orlando (1727). In France...
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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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    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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    Angelica (character) (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    princess in the epic poem Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo. She reappears in the saga's continuation, Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, and...
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    Renaud de Montauban (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    Renaissance epics, including Morgante by Luigi Pulci, Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. The oldest extant version...
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    Pegasus, Bellerophon's winged horse. Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem Orlando Furioso, which tells a similar story, has introduced further confusion. The...
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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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    its immediate causes. So too, Orlando Furioso is not a complete biography of Roland, but picks up from the plot of Orlando Innamorato, which in turn presupposes...
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    Oliver (paladin) (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    Italian romantic epics Morgante by Luigi Pulci, Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. In Boiardo and Ariosto...
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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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  • (Tchaikovsky) Orfeo, Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) (originally for castrato) Orlando, Orlando Furioso (Vivaldi) Orsini, Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti) Polina, The Queen...
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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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    Roland, the oldest surviving major work of French literature, and in Orlando Furioso, one of the most celebrated works of Italian literature. Modern adaptations...
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    Teatro Libero, directed by Luca Ronconi. She performed in their show Orlando furioso, which toured in many European countries and in the United States before...
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  • against the Saracens. Orlando furioso: In Italian and English (1755). Translated by Temple Henry Croker (c. 1730 – c. 1790). Orlando furioso (1799). Translated...
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    Atlantes (sorcerer) (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    24–46) ISBN 0-14-044310-X Ariosto: Orlando Furioso ed. Marcello Turchi (Garzanti, 1974) Ariosto: Orlando Furioso: A Selection ed. Pamela Waley (Manchester...
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    Arnold Böcklin. The painting illustrates a scene from Ariosto's epic Orlando Furioso, in which the Muslim knight Roger (Italian: Ruggiero) saves the pagan...
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    Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (published in an English translation in 1591). The character of Benedick has a counterpart in a commentary on marriage in Orlando Furioso...
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    Angelica and Medoro (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    Angelica and Medoro are two characters from the 16th-century Italian epic Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Angelica was an Asian princess at the court of...
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    Rodomonte (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    character in the Italian romantic epic poems Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. He is the King of Sarza...
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    allegorically being lost in a dark wood. In the Renaissance, both Orlando Furioso and The Faerie Queene had knight-errants who traveled in the woods...
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    Marfisa (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. She is the sister of Ruggiero...
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    Mandricardo (category Characters in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso)
    featured in the Italian romantic epic poems Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Saracen king of the Tartars...
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    they caw Their lamentations in the eerie trees. In Canto XXXIII of Orlando Furioso, author Ludovico Ariosto has the Christian Ethiopian Emperor Senapo...
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