The early adhesion of Orlando furioso to the so-called «Renaissance literature» did not permit us to recognize its foundational significance for the production of a Eurocentric discourse related to colonization processes. The works that have fully had such dimension acknowledged –Os Lusíadas and La Araucana– reproduce the attributes and cultural representations that had already been canonized in Ariosto’s book. Based on some methodological proposals in postcolonial code, this article aims to show the constitutional role of Orlando in 16th century epic European narrative.