| Ruggiero | |
|---|---|
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| First appearance | Orlando Innamorato |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Knight |
| Spouse | Bradamante |
| Relatives | Marfisa (sister), Ruggiero II (father), Gallacia (mother), Atlantes (foster parent) |
| Religion | Islam, then Christianity |
| Nationality | Saracen |
Ruggiero (often translated Rogero in English) is a leading character in the Italian romantic epics Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Ruggiero had originally appeared in the twelfth-century French epic Aspremont, reworked by Andrea da Barberino as the chivalric romance Aspramonte.[1] In Boiardo and Ariosto's works, he is supposed to be the ancestor of Boiardo and Ariosto's patrons, the Este family of Ferrara, and he plays a major role in the two poems.
- ^ The Cambridge History of Italian Literature, Peter Brand and Lino Pertile, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 168.