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Entrée d'Espagne
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Entrée d'Espagne[1] or L'Entrée d'Espagne or Entrée en Espagne[2] (English: "Entry to Spain" or "Entering Spain") is a 14th-century[1] (c.1320)[3] Franco-Venetian[3] chanson de geste. The author is thought to be from Padua.[1][3] The work has survived in only one manuscript,[4] today in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.[2] Based on material from the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle (Historia Caroli Magni, Book IV of the Codex Calixtinus, a Latin chronicle concerning the feats of Charlemagne from the middle of the 12th century) and several other sources,[1] the epic poem (around 16,000 verses extant, out of an original 20,000[3]) tells of Charlemagne's battles in Spain and the adventures of the paladin Roland.
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The poem is notable for transforming the character of Roland into a knight errant, similar to heroes from the Arthurian romances,[2] and was thus a precursor to the portrayal of Orlando/Roland in the Italian romantic epics, such as Morgante (Luigi Pulci), Orlando innamorato (Matteo Maria Boiardo) and Orlando furioso (Ludovico Ariosto).