Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . (- CO <o CO a: X < Z CO zcc U] I ROLAND ROLAND (740-778) •* O, for a blast of that dread horn,On Fontarabian echoes borne That to King Charles did come,When Rowland brave, and Olivier,And every paladin and peer On Roncesvalles died ! —Martnion. ** When Charlemain with all his peerage Fontarabbia.—Paradise A Roland for an Oliver! Saving the passing reference by Scott and Mil-ton, quoted above, Roland and Olivier arealmost unkn
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . (- CO <o CO a: X < Z CO zcc U] I ROLAND ROLAND (740-778) •* O, for a blast of that dread horn,On Fontarabian echoes borne That to King Charles did come,When Rowland brave, and Olivier,And every paladin and peer On Roncesvalles died ! —Martnion. ** When Charlemain with all his peerage Fontarabbia.—Paradise A Roland for an Oliver! Saving the passing reference by Scott and Mil-ton, quoted above, Roland and Olivier arealmost unknown to English readers, and yettheir once familiar names, knit together forcenturies, have passed into a proverb, to beremembered as we remember the friendshipof David and Jonathan, or to be classed bythe scholar with Pylades, and Orestes ofclassic story, or with Amys and Amylion ofromance. The Song of Roland might be calledthe national epic of France. It corresponds totheMort dArthur of England, the CidChronicles of Spain, the Nibelungen Lied of Germany, and the Longobardianlegends of North Italy. Italian mediaeval literature is rich in the Roland ro-mances, founded on the fabulous Chronicle of John Turpin and the Chansonsde Gestes, of which the Song of Roland is one. Of the Italian romances theMorgante Maggiore of Pulci was published as early as 1488, Boyardos Or-lando Innamorata in 1496, and Ariostos Orlando Furioso in 1515. Englishversions of Boyardo and Ariost
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