After the period of the "chanson de geste", the Matter of France lived on. Its most well known survival is in the Italian epics by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Ludovico Ariosto, and a number of lesser authors who worked the material; their tales of "Orlando innamorato" ("Roland in Love")" and Orlando furioso" ("Roland Gone Mad") were inspired by the "chansons de geste". These works, in turn, inspired Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata" and Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", although these latter works have been separated from the Matter of France and put in the respective settings of the First Crusade and an imaginary faerie land.