Boiardo, Matteo Maria, Count of Scandiano, surnamed the “Flower of Chivalry”; an Italian poet, courtier, diplomatist, and statesman; author of “Orlando Innamorato” (1456), the model of Ariosto's “Orlando Furioso,” which eclipsed it (1434‒1494).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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