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Jerusalem Delivered
by Torquato Tasso from 1581
About
Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata (1581) is the supreme Italian Renaissance epic: the First Crusade told through the lens of Ariostean romance, with its central love story between the knight Tancredi and the Saracen warrior-maiden Clorinda among the most affecting episodes in Italian literature. Fairfax's 1600 English translation was enormously influential — Spenser read it, Dryden admired it — and is itself a work of real beauty. The epic's mixture of Christian theology, classical machinery, and chivalric romance gives it an extraordinary range of tones and registers.
Translated from the original Italian by Edward Fairfax.
Jerusalem Delivered
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