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Jerusalem Delivered
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epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581; tells a mythified account of the First Crusade in which Christian knights led by Godfrey of Bouillon battle to take Jerusalem
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Torquato Tasso
- Genre
- epic poem
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Main subject
- Crusades
- Narrative location
- Jerusalem
- Image
- Agostino Carracci, Frontespizio della prima edizione illustrata della Gerusalemme Liberata, 1590.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gerusalemme liberata
- inception
- 1575-00-00
- publication date
- 1581-00-00
- title
- Gerusalemme liberata
- used metre
- ottava rima
- first line
- Canto l'arme pietose e 'l capitano
- language of work or name
- Italian
- copyright status
- public domain
- place of publication
- Italy
- derivative work
- Gerusalemme liberata
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- work available at URL
- www.projekt-gutenberg.org/tasso/jerusalm/jerusalm.html
- time period
- Renaissance
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Encyclopedic overview
Armida Discovers the Sleeping Rinaldo by Nicolas Poussin (1629). Cupid restrains her from stabbing her enemy.
Jerusalem Delivered, also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata [la dʒeruzaˈlɛmme libeˈraːta]; lit. 'The freed Jerusalem'), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. Tasso began work on the poem in the mid-1560s. Originally, it bore the title Il Goffredo. It was completed in April 1575 and that summer the poet read his work to Duke Alfonso of Ferrara and Lucrezia, Duchess of Urbino. A pirate edition of 14 cantos from the poem appeared in Venice in 1580. The first complete editions of Gerusalemme liberata were published in Parma and Ferrara in 1581.
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