Angelica and Medoro

Angelica and Medoro was a popular subject for Romantic painters, composers and writers from the 16th until the 19th century.

[1] Angelica and Medoro are two characters from the 16th-century Italian epic Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.

Angelica was an Asian princess at the court of Charlemagne who fell in love with the Saracen knight Medoro, and eloped with him to China.

[3] Angelica takes Medoro off to a shepherd's hut, and nurses him there, falling in love with him in the process.

It is when the hero Orlando, who is in love with Angelica, finds the names that he becomes furioso or mad.