Orlando furioso in English heroical verse

Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533, Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612, Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604 · 1634 · London printed : By G. Miller for I. Parker · 81 pictures

Orlando furioso in English heroical verse is a 1634 London edition printed by G. Miller for I. Parker, presenting Ariosto's Italian epic in Sir John Harington's English translation for an English reading public. The pictures are black-on-cream woodcut ornaments: a central mask flanked by winged figures and scrolling cartouches, plus a printed Argument panel framed by floral borders, offering a model for symmetrical headpieces, decorative borders and Renaissance strapwork.

Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533

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