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"...the recognition of the irredeemable vanity and falsity of all beauty and all greatness is itself a kind of beauty and greatness that fills the soul when it is conveyed by a work of genius. And the spectacle of nothingness is itself a thing in these works, and seems to enlarge the reader’s soul, to raise it up and to make it take satisfaction in itself and its despair."
Leopardi

The Song of Roland
Troubadours
Chretien de Troyes
Dante
Morgante by Pulci
Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love) by Boiardo
Orlando Furioso by Ariosto
-Translation of 1591 by John Harington
-Translation of 1973 by Barbara Reynolds
Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) by Tasso
-Translation of 2009 by Max Wickert
The Faerie Queene by Spenser
Paradise Lost by Milton
Sordello by Browning