Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Orlando Furioso, Vol. 1 of 6: Translated From the Italian
The fabulous histories of wandering knights, distressed damsels, giants, enchanted castles, and the whole train of legendary adventures, that, for a long time, were the delight of our ancestors, are now universally exploded the inimitable satire of Cervantes has contributed not a. Little to bring them into disrepute; but however justly he may have ridiculed their many absurdities, yet, per haps, we have too rashly adopted the contempt, which almost every one now professes for writings, from which it is certain that the greatest poets have derived many fine images; to which we are probably, in a great mea sure, indebted for the fairy queen of our admired Spenser, and which have been the foundation of the orlando coso, _ that has procured to its author - the appellation of divine.
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