Worldwide School

Orlando Furioso

1516

Ariosto's epic of 1516, continuing Boiardo's unfinished Orlando Innamorato, in William Stewart Rose's verse translation. Charlemagne's paladins and the Saracen armies fight over France while Orlando goes mad for love of Angelica and Astolfo rides to the moon to fetch his wits back. Forty-six cantos of interlaced quests, enchanters, hippogriffs and sieges.