14 Facts About Orlando Furioso

1.

Orlando Furioso is a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's unfinished romance Orlando Innamorato .

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Action of Orlando Furioso takes place against the background of the war between the Christian emperor Charlemagne and the Saracen king of Africa, Agramante, who has invaded Europe to avenge the death of his father Troiano.

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3.

When Orlando Furioso learns the truth, he goes mad with despair and rampages through Europe and Africa destroying everything in his path.

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4.

Orlando Furioso brings them back in a bottle and makes Orlando sniff them, thus restoring him to sanity.

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5.

Orlando Furioso joins with Brandimarte and Oliver to fight Agramante, Sobrino and Gradasso on the island of Lampedusa.

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6.

Orlando Furioso has to avoid the enchantments of his foster father, the wizard Atlante, who does not want him to fight or see the world outside of his iron castle, because looking into the stars it is revealed that if Ruggiero converts himself to Christianity, he will die.

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7.

Orlando Furioso doesn't know this, so when he finally gets the chance to marry Bradamante, as they had been looking for each other through the entire poem although something always separated them, he converts to Christianity and marries Bradamante.

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8.

Orlando Furioso is "one of the most influential works in the whole of European literature" and it remains an inspiration for writers to this day.

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9.

Orlando Furioso was a major influence on Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene.

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10.

Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was an admirer of Orlando Furioso and included a poem, Ariosto y los arabes, exploring the relationship between the epic and the Arabian Nights, in his 1960 collection, El hacedor.

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11.

Orlando Furioso has been the inspiration for many works of art, including paintings by Eugene Delacroix, Tiepolo, Ingres, Redon, and a series of illustrations by Gustave Dore.

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12.

In 1975, Luca Ronconi directed an Italian television mini-series based on Orlando Furioso, starring Massimo Foschi as Orlando, and Silvia Dionisio as Isabella.

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13.

Orlando Furioso, includes Orlando's cousin, the paladin Rinaldo, who, like Orlando, is in love with Angelica, a pagan princess.

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14.

Partisans of Orlando Furioso praised its psychological realism and the naturalness of its language.

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