Roland redivivus.(Book Review)

From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: February 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

ORLANDO INNAMORATO (ORLANDO IN LOW)

By MATTEO MARIA BOIARDO Translated by CHARLES STANLEY Ross Parlor. 717pp. $40.

ORLANDO (OR ROLAND, as he was originally called), the greatest paladin of the (mythic) court of Charlemagne, once loomed in the consciousness of Western culture at least as large as any of King Arthur's knights. He began his (extant) literary adventures in perhaps the late tenth century, in the Chanson de Roland, as a gallant, formidable, intrepid, rash, and somewhat foolish chevalier who is betrayed by his stepfather Ganelon and--along with the whole company ...

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