Ariosto, Opera and the 17th Century Evolution in the Poetics of Delight

The success of Orlando furioso in Italian musical theatre is vast and
complex. This book examines the main phases of the circulation and influence
of Orlando furioso on the seventeenth-century music scene by reconstructing
an overall historical and critical profile, but also through the recovery and
philologically verified transcription of about forty dramatic texts derived
from Ariosto's main narrative currents.