TY  - GEN
T1  - The liberation of Jerusalem = (Gerusalemme liberata)
T2  - Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
A1  - Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595
A2  - Wickert, Max
LA  - English
LA  - Italian
PP  - Oxford ; New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn428734009
AB  - "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 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 the context of his life and times and points to the qualities that have ensured its lasting impact on Western culture" --
OP  - 454
CN  - PQ4642.E21 W53 2009eb
SN  - 9780191567582
SN  - 0191567582
SN  - 9780199535354
SN  - 0199535353
KW  - Godfrey, : of Bouillon, : approximately 1060-1100 : Poetry.
KW  - Godfrey, : of Bouillon, : approximately 1060-1100
KW  - Jerusalem : History : Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244 : Poetry.
KW  - Epic poetry, Italian : Translations into English.
KW  - Crusades : First, 1096-1099 : Poetry.
KW  - Jérusalem (Royaume latin, 1099-1244) : Poésie.
KW  - Croisades : 1re croisade, 1096-1099 : Poésie.
KW  - POETRY : Continental European.
KW  - Crusades
KW  - Epic poetry, Italian
KW  - Middle East : Jerusalem
KW  - 1096-1244
KW  - History
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Translations
ER  -