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Orlando Innamorato ([orˈlando innamoˈraːto]; known in English as "Orlando in Love"; in Italian titled "Orlando innamorato" as the "I" is never capitalized) is an epic poem written by the Italian Renaissance author Matteo Maria Boiardo. The poem is a romance concerning the heroic knight Orlando . It was published between 1483 (first two books ...
His name is the source of the expression rodomontade, meaning "boastful, bragging talk". [1] Rodomonte is also synonymous with strength and courage. The King of Spain gave the appellative "Rodomonte" to Luigi Gonzaga for his extraordinary strength. [2] Rodomonte first appears in Book 2, Canto i of Orlando innamorato. Boiardo was said to be so ...
Bradamante (occasionally spelled Bradamant) is a fictional knight heroine in two epic poems of the Renaissance: Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. [1] Since the poems exerted a wide influence on later culture, she became a recurring character in Western art. [2] [3]
Two standard servants opposite a well-dressed, unmasked woman, La Dona Lucretia, who represents innamorata [1]. Innamorati (Italian: [ʎ innamoˈraːti]; lit. ' lovers ') [2] were stock characters within the theatre style known as commedia dell'arte, who appeared in 16th-century Italy.
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]
Boiardo: Orlando innamorato ed. Giuseppe Anceschi (Garzanti,1978) Boiardo: Orlando innamorato translated by Charles Stanley Ross, (Parlor Press, 2004). Ariosto:Orlando Furioso, verse translation by Barbara Reynolds in two volumes (Penguin Classics, 1975). Part one (cantos 1–23) ISBN 0-14-044311-8; part two (cantos 24–46) ISBN 0-14-044310-X
Ludovico Ariosto (UK: / æ r i ˈ ɒ s t oʊ /, US: / ɑː r i ˈ-/; [1] [2] Italian: [ludoˈviːko aˈrjɔsto,-ariˈɔsto]; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet.He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516).
In Orlando Innamorato, Angelica is introduced as the daughter of Galafrone, the king of "Cathay" or "India".Cathay commonly refers to China, not India, but this seeming inconsistency can be resolved: Boiardo considered Cathay to be a city, and "Cathay was a city in India inferior or Serica" according to the Mappamondo Borgiano.