Mapping The Frenzy Of Orlando

Ludovico Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso' is an epic 16th century poem. The poesy form is gear upwardly inward a fourth dimension of nation of war betwixt the Christians as well as Saracens as well as involves journeys merely about the known Blue Planet (and to the moon). As good equally the eponymous hero Orlando the poesy form features a broad shape of colorful characters, including sorcerers, a gigantic body of body of water monster as well as a flight horse.

The Orlando Furioso Atlas is busy mapping the journeys inward each of the epic poem's forty-six cantos. The graphic symbol journeys inward each of the cantos are shown on overstep of Martin Waldseemüller’s Universalis Cosmographia map of 1507. The purpose of this contemporaneous map helps to evoke the Blue Planet equally it was conceived at the fourth dimension when Orlando Furioso was written. Each character's journeying is shown amongst a distinct colored trouble on the map.

If you lot click on whatsoever indicate on a journeying trouble on the map you lot volition hold upwardly taken to the corresponding text of the poesy form inward the sidebar. Conversely, if you lot click on the highlighted text inward the poem, the corresponding place volition hold upwardly highlighted on the map.