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Jerusalem Delivered
Torquato Tasso
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The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stories, some of which are complicated by differences in religion. The supernatural plays a major role in the action. Partly on this account, and partly because of the multilayered, intertwined plots, the poem met with considerable contemporary criticism, so Tasso revised it radically and published the revision under a new name, La Gerusalemme Conquistata, or "Jerusalem Conquered," which has remained virtually unread, a warning to authors who pay attention to the critics.
The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stories, some of which are complicated by differences in religion. The supernatural plays a major role in the action. Partly on this account, and partly because of the multilayered, intertwined plots, the poem met with considerable contemporary criticism, so Tasso revised it radically and published the revision under a new name, La Gerusalemme Conquistata, or "Jerusalem Conquered," which has remained virtually unread, a warning to authors who pay attention to the critics.
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Why then he wrongeth thee an hundred ways;
Nor let thy state so far disgraced be,
Now what thou art and canst, let Godfrey see.
XXIII
With such false words the kindled fire began
To every vein his poisoned heart to reach,
It swelled his scornful heart, and forth it ran
At his proud looks, and too audacious speech;
All that he thought blameworthy in the man,
To his disgrace that would be each where preach;
He termed him proud and vain, his worth in fight
He called fool-hardise, rashness, madness right.
XXIV
All that in him was rare or excellent,
All that was good, all that was princely found,
With such sharp w. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Torquato Tasso truly woke up in the morning, had a wet dream about converting an Arab Muslim woman who was also white for some reason to Christianity, wrote some poetry about it, and then went to sleep. 98% of the plot points are around that level of deeply ridiculous. also, that guy who personally
How wonderful! I can say that I hated it so much during high school and now nearly 25 years later i love it much !!
The reading was long and tiring, challenging if not sometimes impossible to understand events under a clear historical and allegorical basis. The story tells the deeds of Geoffrey of Bo
"De dos mil no hay ya ciento. Él contemplando
tanta sangre vertida y tanto muerto,
si se está el fuerte pecho lastimando
o acaso teme, yo a decir no acierto.
Sin mostrar turbación, la voz alzando,
Sigamos-grita-al cielo en rumbo cierto
de nuestros compañeros el destino,
que con su sangre marcan el camino."
I can't sing enough praise for these 20 cantos that Tasso laid down for us in 1581. I already thought that 'Orlando Furioso' was a clear cut masterpiece, and this might just be better (in terms of late Renaissance epic poetry). Glory and tragedy is rendered through poetic stanzas which depict a high