Illustration for Canto 31 of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso [drawing].

Accession number: 
PML 3957 drawing
Author: 
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785, artist.
Published: 
1773?
Description: 
1 drawing
Notes: 

Drawing for an engraved frontispiece illustration for Canto 31, stanza 70 (Sì che una sorte uguale ambi li getta / Nell'acqua, e gran rimbombo al ciel ne riede), of an edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Birmingham : Printed by Baskerville for the Italian publishers P and G Molini, 1773).
Bound into volume III, preceding page 267, of a copy of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Birmingham : Baskerville, 1773). See PML 3957.

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Published caption: Sì che una sorte uguale ambi li getta ...

Summary: 

Two soldiers on horseback (Rodomonte and Brandimarte) engaged in combat and falling from a bridge into a moat as a woman kneels on a bridge above at left.

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