The liberation of Jerusalem = (Gerusalemme liberata) /
"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 cit...
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| Lingua: | inglese italiano |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Serie: | Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=276717 |
Sommario:
- Introduction; A Note on the Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Torquato Tasso; THE LIBERATION OF JERUSALEM; Appendix: Tasso's Liberation of Jerusalem in Literature, Art, and Music; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of Proper Names