| #845006 in Books | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2000-07-10 | Original language:Italian | PDF # 1 | 10.00 x.89 x6.25l,1.60 | File type: PDF | 504 pages | ||21 of 26 people found the following review helpful.| Dark and Beautiful|By Neil Scott Mcnutt|Anthony Esolen does it again to bring us a powerfully translated and edited poem, originally in Latin, now for the modern reader. This is a dark and brooding poem that was written by Torquato Tasso when he was slowly going mad. His fixation was on the subject of the first Crusade to free Jerusalem from the Moslems, which was led by|From Library Journal|Published in 1581, Tasso's (1544-95) verse epic on the 11th-century First Crusade and the love of Tancred and Clorinda is one the masterpieces of Italian literature. Esolen (English, Providence Coll.), a translator of Lucretius's On the Natu
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 in the crisis of religious division, and the Crusades were a nostalgic memory. Tasso turned to the First Crusade both as a subject that would test his poetic ambition and as a reflection on the quandaries of his own time. He s...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) | Torquato Tasso. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
