The Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), author of "Gerusalemme liberata," the greatest epic poem written in Italian, was the finest poet of his time.Torquato Tasso born on March 11, 1544, was the...
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In the following essay, Brand argues that Gerusalemme liberata is a “fusion of the heroic epic and the chivalrous romance” and that Tasso's style attempts to follow the classical ...
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In the following essay, Stephens argues that Tasso uses Homeric imitations in Gerusalemme liberata that have important implications for the poem and its representation of authorship.
In canto 18 of...
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In the following essay, Fichter calls Gerusalemme liberata. “a true Christian epic,” based on the theme of redemption.
The dynastic couple in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata consi...
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In the following essay, Chiampi maintains that Gerusalemme Liberata “is at constant pains to foreground its concern with unity, transparency, and univocal conformity” to an unchanging tr...
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In the following essay, Hampton discusses how exemplary figures are presented in the narrative in Gerusalemme liberata and the way in which action defines the self, both for those characters and their...
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In the following essay, Quint discusses the religious aspects of Gerusalemme liberata, which, he argues, celebrates the triumph of the Counter-Reformation.
In 1553, six years before Tasso first beg...
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In the following essay, Ascoli examines the fundamental importance of entombment and liberation in Gerusalemme liberata.
Like much Counter-Reformation writing, Tasso's epic of the Crusaders&...
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In the following essay, Looney claims that Tasso uses an episode in Gerusalemme liberata concerning a source of water as an allegory of his own use of literary sources.
Dice ancora Aristotele che &...
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In the following essay, Da Pozzo considers impulses toward both indeterminacy and finality in Gerusalemme liberata.
In the series of critical interpretations over the past ten years, a variety of m...
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In the following essay, Zatti argues that the “theme of dissimulation—the disguising of bodies, sentiments, or intentions—plays such a large role in the Gerusalemme liberata becau...
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Torquato Tasso
Critical Essay by C. P. Brand
