- Sacripante
Sacripante (also spelled Sacrepant) is a character in the Italian romantic epics "
Orlando innamorato " byMatteo Maria Boiardo and "Orlando furioso " byLudovico Ariosto . Sacripante is the King ofCircassia and one of the leadingSaracen knights. He is passionately in love with Angelica and fights to defend her when she is besieged in the fortress of Albracca. His horse Frontino is stolen from underneath him by the cunning thief Brunello. In Orlando furioso he offers to become the wandering Angelica's protector but she evades him.Sacripante is also the name of boastful character in
Alessandro Tassoni 's mock-epic poem La secchia rapita. Sacrapant is a wizard inGeorge Peele 's play The Old Wives' Tale (published 1595). In French, sacripant came to mean a rogue or a scoundrel.ources
*Boiardo: "Orlando innamorato" ed. Giuseppe Anceschi (Garzanti,1978)
*Ariosto:"Orlando Furioso", verse translation byBarbara Reynolds in two volumes (Penguin Classics, 1975). Part one (cantos 1-23) ISBN 0-14-044311-8; part two (cantos 24-46) ISBN 0-14-044310-X
*Ariosto: "Orlando Furioso" ed. Marcello Turchi (Garzanti, 1974)
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