Jerusalem Delivered: Gerusalemme Liberata

Jerusalem Delivered, Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). Published 1581 in Parma, Italy and translated by Edward Fairfax (1560-1635); translation first published in London, 1600. Jerusalem Delivered is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. The poem is composed of 1,917 stanzas in ott...