Abstract
Boiardo’s Inamoramento de Orlando transformed the stories of Charlemagne and his paladins into something more than mere entertainment, and he did so by instilling Orlando’s adventures with a clear allegorical meaning and by introducing the figure of Rugiero to cast a contemporary light on the epic poem. Almost all of the later chivalric romances followed in Boiardo’s footsteps, some more successfully than others. This essay provides an overview of the main chivalric romances written during the 15th and 16th centuries, and then focuses on the first cantos of the 1516 edition of Orlando Furioso, showing how the Inamoramento de Orlando provided the former not only with the characters and material for the canto, but also marked the path upon which Ariosto would unhesitatingly embark.
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