How is the power of love—positive and/or negative—demonstrated in the text?

What are some examples of chivalric gender roles? How are women and men portrayed similarly and/or differently in Ariosto’s poem?

How do Fate and Fortune intervene in the lives of the characters?

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Cantos 41-46

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