Orlando Furioso
"Orlando Furioso" was a major influence on Edmund Spenser's epic "The Faerie Queene". William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" takes one of its plots (Hero/Claudio/Don John) from "Orlando Furioso" (probably via Spenser or Bandello). In 1592, Robert Greene published a play called "The Historie of Orlando Furioso". According to Barbara Reynolds, the English poet closest in spirit to Ariosto is Lord Byron.