Add to ORKGMoving from the idea that it is extremely easy to discuss the problem of literary genre regarding the Orlando Furioso in anachronistic terms – since the poem was written before the full rediscovery of Aristotle’s Poetics and the following debate about epic and romance –, this essay examines the question of Ariosto’s quotation from Aeneid. Usually conceived as synonymous of “epic” in a sense that this word couldn’t have yet while Ariosto was working on his poem, the presence of Virgil in the Orlando Furioso should be read less schematically: in this sense, the Furioso itself – in particular his ending which constitutes the case study of this article – suggests a way of reading the Aeneid that can undermine some concepts of literary genre bui...