Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata

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Torquato Tasso's *Gerusalemme Liberata* is a 16th-century Italian epic poem that romantically and heroically recounts the First Crusade, blending chivalric adventure, religious themes, and psychological depth.

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instanceOf Italian poem
epic poem
alsoKnownAs Jerusalem Delivered
author Torquato Tasso
countryOfOrigin Italy
featuresCharacter Armida
Clorinda
Erminia
Godfrey of Bouillon
Rinaldo
Tancredi
firstPublicationYear 1581
genre chivalric romance
epic poetry
religious epic
hasAdaptation Antonio Sacchini's opera Armida
George Frideric Handel's opera Rinaldo
Jean-Baptiste Lully
surface form: Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera Armide

Joseph Haydn's oratorio Armida
hasTranslation English translations
French translations
German translations
historicalBasis siege of Jerusalem in 1099
influenced European Baroque literature
Italian opera
Romantic literature
influencedBy Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
surface form: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso
literaryForm narrative poem
literaryInfluenceOn Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata self-linksurface differs
surface form: Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme conquistata
literaryMovement Renaissance literature
literaryStatus masterpiece of Italian Renaissance literature
mainSubject First Crusade
meter ottava rima
narrativePerspective third-person omniscient
notableEpisode Rinaldo
surface form: Rinaldo and Armida episode

love story of Tancredi and Clorinda
numberOfCantos 20
originalLanguage Italian
publicationCentury 16th century
religiousPerspective Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic
settingPeriod 11th century
settingPlace Holy Land
Jerusalem
theme Christian heroism
chivalric honor
conflict between passion and piety
holy war
love and duty
religious faith

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La Henriade influencedBy Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata
Rinaldo sourceMaterial Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata
this entity surface form: Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata (loosely)
The Faerie Queene influencedBy Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata
Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata literaryInfluenceOn Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Gerusalemme liberata
this entity surface form: Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme conquistata