Orlando Innamorato = Orlando in Love

Like Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" and Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered," Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit of "the fairest of her sex, Angelica" (in Milton's terms) through a fairyland that combines the military valor of Charlemagne's knights with the enchantments of King Arthur's court.