The liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata)

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Title:

Author:

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.

ISBN:

9780199535354

Personal Author:

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.

Uniform Title:

Gerusalemme liberata. English

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 454 p. ; 20 cm.

Series:

Oxford world's classics

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

General Note:

Translated from the Italian.

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Introduction vii -- A Note on the Translation xxviii -- Select Bibliography xxx -- A Chronology of Torquato Tasso xxxiii -- The Liberation Of Jerusalem -- Canto One -- Canto Two -- Canto Three -- Canto Four -- Canto Five -- Canto Six -- Canto Seven -- Canto Eight -- Canto Nine -- Canto Ten -- Canto Eleven -- Canto Twelve -- Canto Thirteen -- Canto Fourteen -- Canto Fifteen -- Canto Sixteen -- Canto Seventeen -- Canto Eighteen -- Canto Nineteen -- Canto Twenty -- Appendix: Tasso's Liberation of Jerusalem inLiterature, Art, and Music -- Explanatory Notes -- Glossary of Proper Names.

Abstract:

"In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The siege of the city is played out a longside a magical romance of love and sacrifice, in which the Christian knight Rinaldo succumbs to the charms of the pagan sorceress Armida, and the warrior maiden Clorinda inspires a fatal passion in the Christian Tancred.".

"Tasso's masterpiece left its mark on writers from Spenser and Milton to Goethe and Byron, and inspired countless painters and composers. This is the first English translation in modern times that faithfully reflects both the sense and the verse form of the original. Max Wickert's fine rendering is introduced by Mark Davie, who places Tasso's poem in the context of his life and times and points to the qualities that have ensured its lasting impact on Western culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Personal Subject:

Godfrey, of Bouillon, approximately 1060-1100-Poetry.

Subject Term:

Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English.

Crusades -- First, 1096-1099 -- Poetry.

Geographic Term:

Jerusalem -- History -- Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244 -- Poetry.

Added Author:

Wickert, Max.

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In The Liberation of Jerusalem (1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The siege of the city is played out alongside a magical romance of love and sacrifice, in which the Christian knight Rinaldo succumbs to the charms of the pagan sorceress Armida, and the warrior maiden Clorinda inspires a fatal passion in the Christian Tancred. Tasso's masterpiece left its mark on writers from Spenser and Milton to Goethe and Byron, and inspired countless painters and composers. This is the first English translation in modern times that faithfully reflects both the sense and the verse form of the original. Max Wickert's fine rendering is introduced by Mark Davie, who places Tasso's poem in it troubled historical context and sheds light on its narrative framework and historical accuracy as well as its reception and influence.

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