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Ruggiero (often translated Rogero in English) is a leading character in the Italian romantic epics Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Ruggiero had originally appeared in the twelfth-century French epic Aspremont , reworked by Andrea da Barberino as the chivalric romance Aspramonte . [ 1 ]
Ruggiero sets off to kill Leo; on the way, he finds the Constantine's forces battling the Bulgarians. Ruggiero immediately enters the battle to assist the Bulgarians, who had been losing, and manages to turn the tide of the battle. However, he is captured and imprisoned by the Greeks. Leo, impressed with Ruggiero's valor, frees him.
[2] [3] [4] [a] She comes to Charlemagne's court with her brother Argalia (who assumes the identity of a knight named Uberto dal Leòne). [6] All the knights are smitten with her, especially the cousins Orlando ( Roland ) and Rinaldo (Renaud), but the protective Argalia will only allow her to marry a man who can best him in a joust.
Ruggiero returns to his proper heroic status and sings an aria accompanied by high horns; Oberto is introduced to a lion, to whom he feels strangely attached, and Alcina sings a desolate aria in which she longs for oblivion. Bradamante and Ruggiero decide that they need to destroy the source of Alcina's magic, usually represented as an urn.
In 1112, at the age of sixteen, Roger began his personal rule, being named "now knight, now count of Sicily and Calabria" in a charter document dated 12 June 1112. [1] In 1117, his mother, who had married Baldwin I of Jerusalem , returned to Sicily, since the patriarch of Jerusalem had declared the marriage invalid.
Roger (Ruggiero) is in love with the Christian woman Bradamante, who is a warrior and knight herself. The two lovers are separated many times in the story. Roger, originally a Muslim warrior fighting the Franks, has himself baptized to be able to marry Bradamante, who refuses otherwise to marry him.
Ruggiero and Bradamante are the ancestors of the House of Este, Ariosto's patrons, whose genealogy he gives at length in canto 3 of the poem. The epic contains many other characters, including Orlando's cousin, the paladin Rinaldo , who is also in love with Angelica; the thief Brunello ; the Saracen Ferraù ; Sacripante , King of Circassia and ...
Ruggiero offends Pampinea by revealing that Leonardo was a notorious womanizer and whoremonger, and he shocks the guests by opening Leonardo's secret study, full of pornography and sex toys with a hidden entrance just for prostitutes. Neifile, suffering a crisis of faith, is seduced by Ruggiero, and Panfilo realizes that his plan has backfired.