The Orlando in love told in prose

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The Orlando in love told in prose is a novel by Gianni Celati of 1994.

Genesis
According to the model of other transcriptions in prose of the classical Italian poems, like Orlando furioso of Ludovico Ariosto told by Italo Calvino or the Jerusalem liberated of Torquato Tasso told by Alfredo Giuliani, this kind of novel rewritten of the poem Cavalleresco Orlando in love with Matteo Maria Boiardo (remained interrupted in 1494) was composed, as the author explains in the premise, for love of reading

The Boiardo himself read aloud his poem, as he was composing it, in performances in his castle of Scandiano or the court of Ercole I d'Este and perhaps for this reason he is "closer to theatrical performances than today's novels". Although the transcription in prose (in 43 "points") loses the sound of the original, the reading of the book, to be done slowly and with intervals, "in the company of nice people and not pedant", should however lead to expel boredom and bad thoughts.

Chapters
Apparition of Angelica
Challenge to the Pine Source
The Pentecost tournament
In the wild of the Ardennes
The trip to Orlando
Gradasso in Spain
The journey of Ranaldo
Gradasso in Paris
The journey of Astolfo
In the garden of the fairy Dragontina
The Battle of Albracca
Angelica looking for help
Nine against all
Gran tenzone di Orlando e Agricane
The Marfisa infuriated
Adventures in the wild
The three evidences of fairy Morgana
War for Trufaldino
Orlando and Ranaldo
Biserta Agram
Adventures of missing knights
In the garden of Fallerina
Rodamonte lands in France
The Straits of Orlando
Brunello in Albracca
Adventures in the Far Islands
Roger in the field
Astolfo kidnapped by fairy Alcina
In the country of Lestrigoni
Grand tenzone by Ranaldo and Rodamonte
Transition from Cyprus
The water of love and love
Adventures of Brandimarte and Fiordelisa
Battle with devils
Charlemagne saved by Ranaldo
Agram part for the war
Pumpkin of all samples
Great tense of Orlando and Ruggero
Companies of Mandricardo
The Neck of the Nile
Ruggero and Bradamenate meet
Liberation of Orlando
A love of Fiordespina

In the epilogue, Celati takes the reader on a street between Cento and Bondeno where he imagines passing the Boiardo, stranito by the fog and surrounded by his characters among the bushes.

Issues
Gianni Celati, L'Orlando in love told in prosa, Turin: Einaudi (coll. "The corals" n. 13), 1994

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