Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation

by Ludovico Ariosto (Author), David R . Slavitt (Author), Charles S . Ross (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $34.67

  A translation of Orlando Furioso ( Mad Orlando ). It introduces readers to Ariosto's now neglected masterpiece - a poem whose impact on Western literature can scarcely be exaggerated. It was a major influence on Spenser's Faerie Queene . William Shakespeare borrowed one of its plots. More recently, Italo Calvino drew inspiration from it.