Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “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…”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Essays on the structure of / octaves from Orlando Furioso (primary subject)”
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante: “"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 by Martin McLaughlin: “Calvino says of Ariosto's Orlando furioso and of Fenoglio's Una questione privata”
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino: “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 by Italo Calvino: “Subject of "The Structure of Orlando Furioso," analyzed at length including the enchanted-palace episode with Atlante and Astolfo”
The Essays by Michel de Montaigne: “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 by Francois Rabelais: “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”