Note how ponderous are some of the old epics, the Iliad, the Divine Comedy and Orlando Furioso.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Their saddles had large leathern flaps, covering half the body of the horse, and each had a lazo, or coil of rope, in his hand, and a pair of enormous iron spurs, perhaps six inches long, and weighing two or three pounds, which, contrasted with their small horses, gave a sort of Bombastes Furioso character to their appearance.
"Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I."
John L. Stephens
Sights-Cathedral; house of Lodovico Ariosto, born here 1474. His Orlando Furioso went through sixteen editions in the 16th cent.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black