When Orlando discovers that Angelica has fallen in love with another man, and moreover not with a warrior but with a simple soldier, he goes mad. His madness is a violent fury, which leaves no glimpse of any possibility of coming to his senses. Only the intervention of the supernatural will be able to cure him of the love spell and jealousy. Agramante of Africa brings the war to Charlemagne. Christians and Saracens clash under the city walls of Paris. Chloridano and Medoro, in order to recover the body of their King Dardanello, go at night as far as the city walls but are attacked by a group of Christians, who kill Chloridano and seriously wound Medoro. Meanwhile Angelica, in an attempt to get away from France, arrives in the field where the fight has just taken place and there, among the corpses, she hears a lament. Seriously wounded is Medoro, who had gone to look for the body of King Dardanello to give him an honorable burial. Angelica rescues him and falls madly in love with him. Medoro heals and the two live a beautiful love story. Meanwhile Orlando wanders through the countryside and mountains in search of Angelica. At one point, he sees some writings engraved in the bark of the trees which reveal the great love between Angelica and Medoro. The pain for the betrayal of his beloved is such that the paladin goes mad and destroys everything in his path. Meanwhile Astolfo, who had decided to look for Orlando, finds himself in the middle of a spell. Conducted by the Hippogriff on the Moon, he meets San Giovanni who shows him where the wits of all men are kept and therefore also that of Orlando. It is up to him to take the wisdom of the great paladin and bring it back to earth.

Mimmo, the eldest son of the cav. Giacomo Cuticchio, in 1971 detaches himself from his father's company and forms the Figli d'Arte Cuticchio group operating in schools of all levels. On July 29, 1973 the Teatro dei Pupi S. Rosalia opens in Palermo in Via Bara all'Olivella n. 95 where the cycle of the history of the paladins of France is still represented today and where the preservation of the heritage of techniques handed down from father to son or from master to pupil is an essential value. In 1977, he founded the "Sons of Art Cuticchio" Association which brings together the homonymous company. For the first time a company of puppeteers is recognized by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage This allows further development and qualification of the activity that extends more and more in those craft sectors that traditionally flanked the work of the puppets and to which the puppeteers they always leaned on each other; allows it to act as a self-sufficient production unit, capable of producing shows, controlling all phases, from the embossing of metals for the armor, to the wood carving for the bodies of the puppets, to the painting of scenes and signs, to the creation of the costumes . The company directed by Mimmo Cuticchio welds three main languages of theatrical communication: the recovery of the traditional techniques of puppets and cunto, research and experimentation. In addition to the production activity, the Figli d'Arte Cuticchio group promotes and organizes exhibitions, reviews and since 1985 a theater festival dedicated to puppetry and storytelling entitled The Machine of Dreams. In 1997 Mimmo Cuticchio opened the doors of his laboratory and created the first school for puppeteers and cuntisti with the aim of guaranteeing a future for the puppet theater and the cunto. On May 18, 2001, UNESCO recognized the puppet theater as an "intangible heritage of humanity." In 2013, with a decree, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism - Directorate General for the Archives Service II Protection and conservation of the archival heritage, declared the paper archive of the Cuticchio Figli d'Arte Association of historical interest .