Influence
In spite of its unfinished state and some deficiencies in rhythm, Boiardo's Orlando is considered a magnificent work of art, echoing throughout the poet's ardent devotion to Love and Loyalty, shedding warmth and sunshine wherever the lapse of ages had rendered the legends colourless and cold. Orlando's exploits were continued in the Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto in 1516.
Another Renaissance poet, Torquato Tasso borrowed many of Boiardo's epic conventions, although his Jerusalem Delivered does not use the Orlando frame.
An unabridged English translation was performed by Charles Stanley Ross, published in 2004 by Parlor Press.
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