Renaissance Epic

• Idiot's Guide to Renaissance Epic The first word here says it all, but some readers may find it amusing
• Davideis Abraham Cowley's unfinished 1656 epic, with images of title pages as well as lightly modernized text; Daniel Kinney's large site , the Abraham Cowley Text and Image Archive, is well worth exploring
• Jerusalem Delivered   Fairfax's translation at Project Gutenberg 
• Edmund Spenser Home Page  Richard Bear has texts of many other poets, including most of the Ovidian narratives of the period. A great place to wander around in.
•  John Milton Reading Room
•  Samson Agonistes
•  The Milton-L Home Page
• Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto - Introduction and Table of Contents
• Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) & Creative Quotations:
• Ariosto
•  Orlando Furioso An attractive Italian text, well put together and quick to load
• Orlando Furioso  W. S. Rose's nineteenth-century translation, based on the 1532 version of the poem.
• Lodovico Ariosto Collection
• Catholic Encyclopedia: LUDOVICO ARIOSTO Brief remarks on the "Italian Homer"
• Reflections on Milton and Ariosto [EMLS 2.3 (December 1996): 4.1-16] by Roy Flannagan