In addition, there were about 600 invited guests. It was staged to celebrate the beginning of the building campaigns for the Chateau de Versailles with the intention to acquaint those involved in its construction-the King's wife, mother, lovers, mistresses, and family in general-with cotillon style ball and overall culture. At the king's request, it was organized by the Duke of Saint-Aignan, who took the title from a popular episode in cantos 6–8 and 10 of the 1516 Italian epic Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, in which the knight Ruggiero (in French, Roger) becomes a prisoner of love at the sorceress Alcina's court. The Pleasures of the Enchanted Island (French: Les Plaisirs de l’Île enchantée) was a multi-day performance presented from 7 to to the court of King Louis XIV of France at Versailles. The theatre installed for the première of La Princesse d'Elide, engraved by Silvestre
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