Brandimarte was also a famous painter from a family of the same surname. The family name predated the fictional character. His paintings and organ door paintings can be found in the region of Italy from which many of the family surname originated. Mainly around the Le Marche region of Italy spanning San Benedetto Del Tronto to Monte Predone Italy. Brandimarte paintings utilized ciarascuro or light to dark which got him summoned to the Council of Trent for charges of being a degenerato or degenerate.
A Brandimarte painting sunk on a ship.
A Brandimarte rode with charlamane per an interpretation of the family crest and more research.
References
Boiardo: Orlando innamorato ed. Giuseppe Anceschi (Garzanti,1978)
Orlando Furioso, prose translation by Guido Waldman (Oxford, 1999).
ISBN0-19-283677-3.
Orlando Furioso, verse translation by
Barbara Reynolds in two volumes (Penguin Classics, 1975). Part one (cantos 1-23)
ISBN0-14-044311-8; part two (cantos 24-46)
ISBN0-14-044310-X. Part one has since been reprinted.