1894 Brewer’s / O / Orlando Innamorato (Roland the paladin in love)
A romantic epic in three books, by the Count Boiardo of Scandiano, in Italy (1495).
There is a burlesque in verse of the same title by Berni of Tuscany (1538), author of Burlesque Rhymes.
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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.