Mad for Love
Tobias Gregory: ‘Orlando Furioso’, 9 September 2010
‘Orlando Furioso’: A New Verse Translation
by Ludovico Ariosto, translated by David Slavitt.
Harvard, 672 pp., £29.95, November 2009,978 0 674 03535 5 Show More
by Ludovico Ariosto, translated by David Slavitt.
Harvard, 672 pp., £29.95, November 2009,
“... on the follies of love, outrage at foreign invasions of Italy, a dynastic marriage and praise of Ariosto’s patrons, the Este of Ferrara. No part can fairly represent the whole, but one remarkable episode conveys something of the poem’s atmosphere. Orlando, Charlemagne’s right-hand man and the hero of countless adventures, has run mad for love. To ... ”
