The third part of Bulfinch’s mythology retells the romances that grew up around Charlemagne and his peers: the tournaments, the siege of Albracca, the loves and quarrels of Rinaldo and Orlando, and Astolpho’s journey to the moon to recover Orlando’s lost wits. Much of it comes by way of the Italian poets Boiardo and Ariosto.
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