“I sing of Ladies and Cavaliers, of Love and War, of Chivalry and daring feats in those times of high endeavor when the Moors crossed the sea from Afric to wreak havoc in Frankland; when their King Agramant, in his youthful rage and furious heat, swore vengeance upon Roman Emperor Charlemagne for the death of Trojan . . .”
—Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516)