![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At that time, scholars were interested in reviving the ancient epic (think, Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid), and some did so by weaving this classical genre with the medieval Romance tradition (for example, the British legends of King Arthur and his knights, and the French chansons de geste, which often featured tales of Charlemagne in his wars against the Moors): thus, put simply: classical epic + medieval romance = romance epic. The Orlando Furioso belongs to a literary genre known as romance epic, which emerged from humanist circles in fifteenth-century Italy. The Orlando Furioso is a lengthy narrative poem that recounts the stories of dozens of knights, princesses, kings, warriors, wizards, and witches as they gallivant around the globe engaging in amorous adventures and daring feats of courage, all set against the background of the war between Christian France and the Muslim kingdoms of Spain and the Maghreb. Introduction to Ariosto's Orlando Furioso "Perseus Freeing Andromeda," by Piero di Cosimo, 1510-13 (Uffizi Gallery), with superimposed quote from Ariosto's "Satira terza," vv. The Orlando Furioso Atlas is an interactive digital mapping project, which aims to translate and represent in cartographic terms the sprawling world of perhaps the greatest literary work of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, known in English as The Frenzy of Orlando.Ĭlick here to go straight to the Canto Maps. ![]()
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