Isabelle or Isabella (in Orlando Furioso)

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.