Orlando Furioso (English)

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Rose's Victorian English translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso gives English readers access to the supreme Italian Renaissance epic: forty-six cantos of knights, magicians, love plots, and the hippogriff. The poem's ironic lightness and narrative control — the female knight Bradamante, the moon voyage for Orlando's lost wits — give it an extraordinary range of tones. Individual cantos work as standalone readings.