Boiardo
Orlando Innamorato: Orlando in Love
by Matteo Maria Boiardo
The medieval and Renaissance romance epic made popular by C. S. Lewis in The Allegory of Love and an imaginative inspiration for the Narnia books.
Click here for First Lines: A Project in Global Diversity, featuring video clips of acclaimed Purdue University students and faculty reciting and discussing short passages in Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, etc.
Click here to go to Charles Ross’s Boiardo page for film clips of the Sicilian puppets and more, based on the work of Columbia University professor Jo Ann Cavallo
Click here for the of the complete Orlando Innamorato, based on the original University of California Press and Oxford University Press editions.
Click here for the Simpson University website dedicated to Statius’ Thebaid (Seven Against Thebes), translated by Charles Ross. The battle between two brothers for Thebes was read allegorically as a battle for the soul by Dante, Boiardo, Ariosto, and Spenser.
