Quotes from Ludovico Ariosto's books, and about them
Don Quixote on Orlando Furioso: “His name," said the Distressed One, "is not the same as Bellerophon's horse that was called Pegasus, or Alexander the Great's, called Bucephalus, or Orlando Furioso's, the name of which was Brigliador, nor yet Bayard, the horse of Reinaldos of Montalvan, nor Frontino like Ruggiero's, nor Bootes or…”
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay on Orlando Furioso: “"Now, instead, as in Ariosto's Orlando, in my head a fountain had opened and it flowed from my eyes without ever drying up..." — Elena's own narrative voice making a literary allusion.”
Italo Calvino on Orlando Furioso: “Calvino says of Ariosto's Orlando furioso and of Fenoglio's Una questione privata”
The Castle of Crossed Destinies on Orlando Furioso: “The central axes of this pattern present episodes inspired by the Orlando Furioso of Lodovico ("The Tale of Roland Crazed with Love" and "The Tale of Astolpho on the Moon").”
The Uses of Literature on Orlando Furioso: “Subject of "The Structure of Orlando Furioso," analyzed at length including the enchanted-palace episode with Atlante and Astolfo”
The Essays on Orlando Furioso: “This conception of mine is nowhere more demonstrable than in comparing the AEneid with Orlando Furioso; of which we see the first, by dint of wing, flying in a brave and lofty place, and always following his point: the latter, fluttering and hopping from tale to tale…”
Gargantua and Pantagruel on Orlando Furioso: “certain occult and hid properties; in the number of which are reckoned Whippot, Orlando Furioso, Robert the Devil, Fierabras, William without Fear, Huon of Bordeaux, Monteville, and Matabrune”