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I’ve been wanting to read medieval and classical epics for fun and because I hope to write an epic-style fantasy myself someday. To start out, I picked up The Song of Roland, Orlando Furioso, Le Morte D’Arthur, and Beowulf from my library today. I also plan to read Homer’s epics, the Aeneid, the Nibelungenlied, El Cid, Paradise Lost (even though that’s modern), and a few more for now. Any other epics/myths in particular I should read?

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Ariosto, like all great Italian writers, as well as those who are inspired by Italian culture (Stendhal, Chaucer, etc.) imbues his work with a full of sense of life while being generally unconcerned with formal perfection. Italian literature has everything that's missing in contemporary Anglosphere (ie Protestant) novels, which tend to be cold and passionless artistic exercises.

Cf. Tasso and Manzoni, to a lesser extent.

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