Jerusalem Delivered

Jerusalem Delivered
Title Jerusalem Delivered PDF eBook
Author Torquato Tasso
Publisher Wayne State University Press
Pages 700
Release 1987-01-04
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0814337562

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Annotations and a glossary clarify the numerous historical, geographical, and mythological references.

Jerusalem Delivered

Jerusalem Delivered
Title Jerusalem Delivered PDF eBook
Author Torquato Tasso
Publisher
Pages 288
Release 1811
Genre Crusades
ISBN

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The Jerusalem Delivered of Torquato Tasso

The Jerusalem Delivered of Torquato Tasso
Title The Jerusalem Delivered of Torquato Tasso PDF eBook
Author Torquato Tasso
Publisher
Pages 578
Release 1854
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The Liberation of Jerusalem

The Liberation of Jerusalem
Title The Liberation of Jerusalem PDF eBook
Author Torquato Tasso
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 492
Release 2009-02-12
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0191567582

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'The bitter tragedy of human life— horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 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 Crusade. The siege of the city is played out alongside a magical romance of love and sacrifice, in which the Christian knight Rinaldo succumbs to the charms of the pagan sorceress Armida, and the warrior maiden Clorinda inspires a fatal passion in the Christian Tancred. Tasso's masterpiece left its mark on writers from Spenser and Milton to Goethe and Byron, and inspired countless painters and composers. This is the first English translation in modern times that faithfully reflects both the sense and the verse form of the original. Max Wickert's fine rendering is introduced by Mark Davie, who places Tasso's poem in the context of his life and times and points to the qualities that have ensured its lasting impact on Western culture. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Jerusalem

Jerusalem
Title Jerusalem PDF eBook
Author Karen Armstrong
Publisher Ballantine Books
Pages 509
Release 2011-08-10
Genre Religion
ISBN 0307798593

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Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and mourned for again and again, Jerusalem is a sacred city whose very sacredness has engendered terrible tragedy. In this fascinating volume, Karen Armstrong, author of the highly praised A History of God, traces the history of how Jews, Christians, and Muslims have all laid claim to Jerusalem as their holy place, and how three radically different concepts of holiness have shaped and scarred the city for thousands of years. Armstrong unfolds a complex story of spiritual upheaval and political transformation--from King David's capital to an administrative outpost of the Roman Empire, from the cosmopolitan city sanctified by Christ to the spiritual center conquered and glorified by Muslims, from the gleaming prize of European Crusaders to the bullet-ridden symbol of the present-day Arab-Israeli conflict. Written with grace and clarity, the product of years of meticulous research, Jerusalem combines the pageant of history with the profundity of searching spiritual analysis. Like Karen Armstrong's A History of God, Jerusalem is a book for the ages. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Karen Armstrong's Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life.

Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, an Heroic Poem

Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, an Heroic Poem
Title Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, an Heroic Poem PDF eBook
Author Torquato Tasso
Publisher
Pages 460
Release 1818
Genre
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Jerusalem Delivered ... Translated ... by John Hoole ... The Fourth Edition

Jerusalem Delivered ... Translated ... by John Hoole ... The Fourth Edition
Title Jerusalem Delivered ... Translated ... by John Hoole ... The Fourth Edition PDF eBook
Author Torquato Tasso
Publisher
Pages 324
Release 1772
Genre
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