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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.
Science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon's 1954 short story "To Here and the Easel" is an assembly of portions of the Orlando story intermixed with a current-day recasting of the story into the lives of a painter suffering from artist's block (Ruggiero/Rogero and his analog Giles), a mysterious faithful supporter (Bradamante and her analog Miss ...
Ruggiero (pronounced [rudˈdʒɛːro]) is an Italian spelling variant of the name Ruggero, a version of the Germanic name Roger, and may refer to: As a surname. Adamo Ruggiero (born 1986), Canadian actor; Angela Ruggiero (born 1980), American hockey player; Angelo Ruggiero (1940–1989), Member of the New York City Mafia
Roger Freeing Angelica is an oil painting executed in 1873 by Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin. The painting illustrates a scene from Ariosto 's epic Orlando Furioso , in which the Muslim knight Roger (Italian: Ruggiero ) saves the pagan princess Angelica from a sea monster.
Ruggero (pronounced [rudˈdʒɛːro]), the Italian equivalent of Roger, may refer to: Ruggero I of Sicily (1031–1101) Norman king of Sicily; Ruggero J. Aldisert (1919–2014), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Ruggero Berlam (1854–1920), Italian architect; Ruggero Bonghi (1826–1895), Italian scholar ...
Roger III (Italian: Ruggero III, Sicilian: Ruggeru III; 1175 – 24 December 1193), of the House of Hauteville, was the eldest son and heir of King Tancred of Sicily and Queen Sibylla. He was made Duke of Apulia (as Roger V), [1] probably in 1189, shortly after his father's accession. In the summer of 1192 he was crowned co-king with his father ...
Roger I (Italian: Ruggero; Arabic: رُجار, romanized: Rujār; Maltese: Ruġġieru; Norse: Rogierr; c. 1031 [1] – 22 June 1101), nicknamed "Roger Bosso" and "Grand Count Roger", [a] was a Norman nobleman who became the first Grand Count of Sicily from 1071 to 1101.