Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata)
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 sought to create a masterpiece that would deserve comparison with the great epics of the past.Anthony Esolen's new translation captures the delight of Tasso's descriptions, the di…
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Weitere Autoren: Esolen, Anthony M. (Providence College) (Hrsg.) / Esolen, Anthony M. (Providence College) (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8018-6323-3
- EAN: 9780801863233
- Produktnummer: 1642017
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 504 S.
- Masse: H16.2 cm x B25.4 cm x D2.7 cm 810 g
- Abbildungen: 10 Line drawings, black and white; 53 Halftones, black and white
- Gewicht: 810
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Anthony Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College. He is the editor and translator of Lucretius: On the Nature of Things, also available from Johns Hopkins.
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