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454 pages • first pub 1581 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199535354
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 01 April 2009
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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 Crus...
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454 pages • first pub 1581 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199535354
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 01 April 2009
Description
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 Crus...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings