Epic poem · 1591

Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse

Translated by Sir John Harington from the Italian of Ludovico Ariosto, in forty-six cantos

by Ludovico Ariosto

Translated by Sir John Harington (1591)

Ariosto's romance epic of Charlemagne's paladins, Orlando's love-madness, and the love of Ruggiero and Bradamante, in Sir John Harington's Elizabethan ottava rima, the first complete English version.

Contents · 46 parts

• Canto 1about 650 lines
• Canto 2about 610 lines
• Canto 3about 500 lines
• Canto 4about 470 lines
• Canto 5about 740 lines
• Canto 6about 650 lines
• Canto 7about 550 lines
• Canto 8about 650 lines
• Canto 9about 700 lines
• Canto 10about 780 lines
• Canto 11about 530 lines
• Canto 12about 560 lines
• Canto 13about 540 lines
• Canto 14about 890 lines
• Canto 15about 660 lines
• Canto 16about 520 lines
• Canto 17about 710 lines
• Canto 18about 760 lines
• Canto 19about 570 lines
• Canto 20about 780 lines
• Canto 21about 560 lines
• Canto 22about 620 lines
• Canto 23about 860 lines
• Canto 24about 770 lines
• Canto 25about 620 lines
• Canto 26about 790 lines
• Canto 27about 900 lines
• Canto 28about 780 lines
• Canto 29about 560 lines
• Canto 30about 710 lines
• Canto 31about 710 lines
• Canto 32about 820 lines
• Canto 33about 940 lines
• Canto 34about 730 lines
• Canto 35about 620 lines
• Canto 36about 660 lines
• Canto 37about 820 lines
• Canto 38about 730 lines
• Canto 39about 670 lines
• Canto 40about 620 lines
• Canto 41about 750 lines
• Canto 42about 660 lines
• Canto 43about 1510 lines
• Canto 44about 780 lines
• Canto 45about 910 lines
• Canto 46about 980 lines

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