The recording project combines two greatest passions that synthesize Chiara Fabbri's personal history: the classical guitar and her hometown, Ferrara, Italy. With this music Fabbri pays homage to Ferrara's rich history, art and literature. This year is the five hundredth anniversary of the first publication of Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem Orlando Furioso. Ariosto was a central figure of the Italian renaissance, and as innovator of the chivalrous poem his literatury presence at the Este court was symbolic of Ferrara's cultural importance. Although the pairing of music and poetry was only fully realized in Italy at the end of the 16th Century, during Atiosto's time public readings of Furioso were likely accompanied by courtsan music. The guitar was not a Renaissance instrument, so this program does not intend to replicate the music performed at the Este court.