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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. This work is a continuation of the "e;Orlando Innamorato"e; of Matteo Maria Boiardo, which was left unfinished upon the author's death in 1494. It begins more or less at the point where Boiardo left it....

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