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Marfiʹsa

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Name of an Indian queen in Bojardo’s Orlando Innamorato, and in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso.

 

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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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