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A scene from
Orlando furioso
("Orlando the Furious"), an
epic poem
written by
Ludovico Ariosto
in 1516. It is a sequel to
Matteo Maria Boiardo
's
Orlando innamorato
("Orlando in Love"), but it is quite distant from the other work in that it does not preserve the humanistic concepts of
knight-errantry
. In this scene, Ruggierio is rescuing
Angelica
, a typical
princess and dragon
premise.
Artist:
Gustave Doré
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