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The Orlando Furioso, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
The Orlando Furioso Vol 1 - Classic Reprint Author:Lodovico Ariosto It will, probablyj be expected that a new translation of the Furioso should be prefaced by some account of the versions which have preceded it ; and I the more readily undertake .this .little task, ās in the execution of it my reasons will be found for the enterprize upon which I have myself adventured. — The .first version of Ariosto's great. po... more »em' was made by Sir John Harrington, the godson of .Queen Elizabeth^ who translated it into.the,same,stanza as that of the original. The main defect.of this work is its infidelity, and I cannot better, illustrate this than; by,'observing,' that he has'compressed a canto of nearly two hundred stanzas into ninety. ' A more unpardonable defect is, that he always omits what is best worth preserving; and,as an Italian friend
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