La Gerusalemme Liberata Di Torquato Tasso con Le Figure Di Giambatista Piazzetta Alla Sacra Real Maesta Di Maria Teresa d'Austria [[Torquato Tasso, Liberated Jerusalem With The Figures Of Giambatista Piazzetta At The Sacred Real Maestral Of Maria Teresa of Austria]]

La Gerusalemme Liberata Di Torquato Tasso con Le Figure Di Giambatista Piazzetta Alla Sacra Real Maesta Di Maria Teresa d'Austria Trans. from Italian: Torquato Tasso, Liberated Jerusalem With The Figures Of Giambatista Piazzetta At The Sacred Real Maestral Of Maria Teresa of Austria

Author: Tasso, Torquato

4to (7 1/4"x11 1/2") 1924. Tasso, Torquato. Milano: Fatelli Treves. Binding by A. Genova of Venice, a facsimile copy of the 1745 edition, illustrated in color, housed in binder's custom slipcase, the binding elaborately gilt over Front board and spine with leather onlays, back board tooled in blind, all edge gilt, watered silk moire endleaves and gluedowns. An elaborately gilt decorated FINE binding.

From Brittanica: Gerusalemme liberata, (Italian: “Jerusalem Liberated”) heroic epic poem in ottava rima, the masterpiece of Torquato Tasso. He completed it in 1575 and then spent several years revising it. While he was incarcerated in the asylum of Santa Anna, part of the poem was published without his knowledge as Il Goffredo; he published the complete epic in 1581. It was published in English as Jerusalem Delivered. Gerusalemme liberata tells of the Christian army led by Godfrey of Bouillon during the last months of the First Crusade, which recovered Jerusalem from the Turks in 1099. To the poem’s principal historical action, Tasso added imaginary characters and episodes that freely expressed his lyrical and hedonistic imagination. Tasso tried to balance the moral aspirations of the times with his own sensuous inspiration and the formal rules of the epic with his lyrical fancy. Gerusalemme conquistata, a new version of the epic written to submit to the era’s moral and literary prejudices, was published in 1593, but poetically it was judged a failure.

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