Bradamante

Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature

Meaning

Used by Matteo Maria Boiardo for a female knight in his epic poem Orlando Innamorato (1483). He possibly intended it to derive from Italian brado “wild, untamed, natural” and amante “loving” or perhaps Latin amantis “lover, sweetheart, mistress”, referring to her love for the Saracen Ruggiero. Bradamante also appears in Ludovico Ariosto’s poem Orlando Furioso (1532) and Handel’s opera Alcina (1735).
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