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Isabelle or Isabella (in Orlando Furioso)

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Daughter of the king of Galicia, in love with Zerbiʹno; but, being a pagan, Zerbino could not marry her. Zerbino induces her to quit her native land, and gives Odoriʹco charge of her. She is wrecked, and Odorico escapes with her to Rochelle. Here Odorico assails her virtue, but is alarmed by a vessel which he sees approaching, and flees. She is kept captive by the crew for nine months, but Orlando slays or hangs all the crew, and Isabella being free, accompanies her rescuer. Her lament at the death of Zerbino is one of the best parts of the poem (book xii.). She retires to a chapel to bury Zerbino, and is there slain by Rodʹomont.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Irritable Genus (The)
Irspilles Felles
Irtish Ferry
Irus
Irvingites
Isaac
Isaac of York
Isabel
Isabella
Isabella
Isabelle or Isabella (in Orlando Furioso)
Isabelle
Isaf
Isenbras or Sir Isumbras
Isengrin or Sir Isgrim
Iseult
Ishban
Ishbosheth
Ishmonie
Isiac Tablet
Isidorian Decretals