Albracca (also spelledAlbraca andAlbrace) is a major city ofCathay in the Italian romanticepicsOrlando innamorato byMatteo Maria Boiardo^[1] andOrlando furioso byLudovico Ariosto.^[2] In the story it is the walled city and fortress whereAngelica and the knights she has befriended make their stand when attacked byAgrican, emperor ofTartary.^[3]

Scholars have identified Albracca withBukhara in modernUzbekistan, in part because the siege of Albracca by Agrican described in theOrlando innamorato resembles the historic siege of Bukhara byGenghis Khan in 1220.^[4]

• Boiardo:Orlando innamorato ed. Giuseppe Anceschi (Garzanti,1978)
• Boiardo:Orlando innamorato, verse translation by Charles Stanley Ross (Oxford University Press, 1995), Book I, Cantos 10-19 and Explanatory Notes, pp. 401-402.ISBN 0-19-282438-4
• Ariosto:Orlando Furioso, verse translation byBarbara Reynolds in two volumes (Penguin Classics, 1975). Part one,ISBN 0-14-044311-8; part two,ISBN 0-14-044310-X
• Ariosto:Orlando Furioso ed. Marcello Turchi (Garzanti, 1974)

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