Orlando Innamorato: Orlando in Love

byMatteo Maria Boiardo

Themedieval and Renaissance romance, or heroic epic, made popular by C. S. Lewisin The Allegory of Love and one of themajor influences on the Narnia books.

Boiardo’ssummer home

at La Torricella, Italy

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, and fifteen other languages.

Click here for Charles Ross’s homepage.

Click here to go to Charles Ross’s Boiardo page for film clipsof the Sicilian puppets and more, based on the work of Columbia University professor Jo Ann Cavallo.

Click here for the Parlor Press edition of the complete Orlando Innamorato, based on the original University of California Press and Oxford University Presseditions.

Click here for the Simpson Universitywebsite dedicated to Statius’s Thebaid (Seven Against Thebes, translated by Charles Ross. The battlebetween two brothers for Thebes was ready allegorically as a battle for the human soul by Dante, Boiardo, Ariosto, and Spenser.