ESSAY ON: Torquato Tasso/"Jerusalem Delivered"

Number of Pages 4

This research paper: A 4 page research paper that summarizes various points in Tasso's sixteenth century Christian epic poem "Gerusalemme Liberata" (Jerusalem Delivered). This epic dramatizes the successes of the First Crusade in wresting control of Jerusalem away from Muslim rule. Tasso's protagonist is Godfrey of Bouillon, who is depicted primarily as a general and a strategist. Additionally, Tasso allows himself poetic license and creates a fictional hero in Rinaldo, a mythical ancestor of the Este and a hero of almost superhuman force, similar to Homer's Achilles. Bibliography lists 2 sources.


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