The popularity of Orlando Furioso probably drew Tofte to the Boiardo poem that inspired Ariosto. Despite the title page, Tofte translates not the first three books of the Innamorato, but rather the first three cantos of the first book. Tofte maintains the centrality of the theme of love in the poem and even accentuates the eroticism in Boiardo's original.Scarsi, Translating Women, 129. It was dedicated to Lady Margaret, wife of Sir John Morgan of Chilworth, Surrey.J. Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century Vol. 5 (J.B. Nichols & Son, London 1828), p. 538.
