Jerusalem Delivered: Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso

Jerusalem Delivered: Gerusalemme Liberata

Torquato Tasso with Anthony Esolen (Translator)

504 pages first pub 1581 (editions)

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Late in the eleventh century the First Crusade culminated in the conquest of Jerusalem by Christian armies. Five centuries later, when Torquato Tasso began to search for a subject worthy of an epic, Jerusalem was governed by a sultan, Europe was i...

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