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11) The final fit of madness begins in Canto 35 when Bradamant defeats Rodomont in combat.

An argument for slavery in Robert Greene's adaptation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso

Bradamant's Quest" is a youthful fantasy from Ruth Berman who presents a story of Bradamant, who is charged in recovering her family's magical talismans after Charlemagne's wars are over.

The fantasy/SciFi shelf

Indeed, much of Ariosto's action is engineered to bring together Ruggiero the Saracen (at least on his mother's side) with the Christian Bradamant in order to explain the "mixed" lineage (however fictionalized) of the Florentine house of Este.

Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Burly Modern Spain

The world of chivalry and the world of fantasy mingle in the poem's three main stories: the account of the wars of Charlemagne, the tale of Orlando's hopeless love for Angelica and his later madness, and the love story of Rogero and Bradamant, the supposed heirs of the great house of Este.

The cause of many misfortunes to others, she herself falls victim to an enchanter's magic and is carried to the island of Ebuda, where she is about to be offered as a sacrifice to a giant orc when she is saved by Rogero, the Saracen knight who forgets his own loved Bradamant and falls under the spell of Angelica's charms.

Rejoicing when he learns that Rogero has received Christian baptism, he promises the hand of his sister Bradamant to the Saracen hero.

After many marvelous adventures, which include his rescue of Bradamant from the enchanted castle in which Atlantes, a magician, holds him prisoner, his ride on a flying hippogryph, his slaying of the giantess Eriphilia, his rescue of Angelica from the monstrous orc, his forgetting of Bradamant while he woos and loses Angelica, his victory over Mandricardo, his sojourn on a desert island, and his Christian baptism, he is finally restored to his beloved Bradamant.

The story ends with an account of the happy wedding festivities of Bradamant and Rogero, now turned Christian.

Count Pinabel, a treacherous knight whom Bradamant encounters while she is searching for Rogero.

Melissa, a seeress whom Bradamant finds in Merlin's cave, into which Count Pinabel pushed her.

Brunello, a dwarf to whom Agramant, king of Africa, has entrusted the magic ring used by Bradamant to free Rogero and his fellow knights from the spell cast upon them by the magician Atlantes.

Orlando Furioso

He was saved from this captivity by Bradamant, a warrior maiden.

Song of Roland

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