![]() ![]() Ruggiero fights Alcina, but she seduces him with magic. Ruggiero flies the hippogryph to the island where the evil sorceress Alcina has imprisoned the enchanted Astolfo, cousin of Rinaldo and Orlando. Rinaldo lands in Scotland, where he rescues several maidens and kills their kidnapper Polynex. But before Bradamant can get to Ruggiero, he is abducted by Atlas’s hippogryph.Ĭharlemagne sends Rinaldo to England. After Bradamant defeats Atlas, Atlas releases his prisoners. The sorceress Melissa tells Bradamant how to get a magic ring to defeat Atlas. ![]() Bradamant finds a secret altar where the ghost of Merlin foretells that she will marry Ruggiero. Rinaldo’s sister, the female Christian knight Bradamant, seeks her love, the Moorish warrior Ruggiero, who is imprisoned in the magic castle of the wizard Atlas. Angelica escapes Orlando and Rinaldo, getting captured and rescued by a series of knights. His rival for her affections is Rinaldo, another Christian paladin. While Agramant besieges Charlemagne in Paris, Orlando falls in love with the pagan princess Angelica. Its main story follows the knight Orlando, one of the paladins of Charlemagne, goes mad as a result of love however, there are also many other interwoven stories, and countless asides by the narrator. The poem takes place during a war between the Christian Emperor Charlemagne of France and the Moorish King Agramant. This guide cites the prose translation by Guido Waldman, published by Oxford World’s Classics in 2008. ![]()
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