Oxford World's Classics Orlando Furioso, (Paperback)

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Took away one star because this (and the publisher is very coy about telling one) IS AN ABRIDGEMENT!

from DinadansFriend

A wonderful verse translation of a major European romance cycle. When you couple this book with the "Orlando Innamorato" of Boiardo, you have the story of Roland nailed down. And it's a big story, with many more magical elements than the Arthur cycle. I understand that in Italian it is a satire o...

from BillMcGann

In 778 Charlemagne made an incursion over the Pyrenees into Spain. Needing to take his army to the Rhine to meet another challenge, he retreated, leaving a rearguard to protect his army as it withdrew. That rearguard, led by Count Hruodland (later known as Roland) was defeated at Roncesvalles. Th...

from olgalijo

After the famous protagonist of the French "Chanson the Roland" falls in love in Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato", Ludovico Ariosto decides to give another turn of the screw to Orlando's humanity (something that had never happened before in the literature of this era, as the heros of the sagas didn...

from BillMcGann

In 778 Charlemagne made an incursion over the Pyrenees into Spain. Needing to take his army to the Rhine to meet another challenge, he retreated, leaving a rearguard to protect his army as it withdrew. That rearguard, led by Count Hruodland (later known as Roland) was defeated at Roncesvalles. Th...