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Orlando Furioso

A Renaissance best-seller of love and action
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A Renaissance best-seller of love and action

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

The Folger Shakespeare Library’s 26 copies of various editions of Lodovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso attest to its success during the 16th and early 17th centuries (a success that continued for much longer, but that is another story). See for example Exercices furieux: à…