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A sprawling Renaissance epic in verse interlaces martial campaigns, courtly love, and supernatural marvels through a web of episodic adventures. Knights and lovers pursue honor, vengeance, and desire amid pitched battles between rival forces, while sorcerers, enchanted objects, and prophetic visions divert quests into fantastic detours. One thread treats obsessive passion that fractures reason and prompts a strange quest to restore sanity, while others follow duels, rescues, and shifting loyalties across exotic seas and mythic landscapes. The poem alternates elevated epic description with ironic and comic commentary, blending chivalric romance, classical allusion, and imaginative fantasy.

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Title: Roland Furieux, tome 2

Traduction nouvelle par Francisque Reynard

Author: Lodovico Ariosto

Translator: Francisque Reynard

Release date: November 6, 2023 [eBook #72055]

Language: French

Original publication: Paris: Lemerre, 1880

Credits: Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)

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ARIOSTE

ROLAND FURIEUX

Traduction nouvelle
PAR
FRANCISQUE REYNARD

TOME DEUXIÈME

PARIS
ALPHONSE LEMERRE, ÉDITEUR
27-31, PASSAGE CHOISEUL, 27-31

M DCCC LXXX