Author : Torquato Tasso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1786
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:79527269
The Gerusalemme Liberata
Torquato Tasso
Gerusalemme Liberata
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Jerusalem Delivered
Torquato Tasso
Author : Torquato Tasso
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780814337561
Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso Pdf
Ralph Nash, in his approach to Gerusalemme Liberata, concluded that a close, fluent translation in prose of Tasso's epic would offer the most successful rendering of this important chivalric romance.
Gerusalemme Liberata
Torquato Tasso
Author : Torquato Tasso
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732626595
Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso Pdf
Reproduction of the original.
Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata)
Torquato Tasso
Author : Torquato Tasso
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801877001
Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) by Torquato Tasso Pdf
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. Gerusalemme liberata became one of the most widely read and cherished books of the Renaissance. First published in 1581, it was translated into English by Edward Fairfax in 1600. That translation has been the standard, even though Fairfax was only a good, not a great, poet. Fairfax tried to fit Tasso's verse into Spenserian stanzas, adding to and subtracting from the original and often changing Tasso's meaning. Anthony Esolen's new translation captures the delight of Tasso's descriptions, the different voices of its cast of characters, the shadings between glory and tragedy—and it does all this in an English as powerful and clear as Tasso's Italian. Tasso's masterpiece finally emerges as an English masterpiece.
A Study Guide for Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata"
Gale, Cengage Learning
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410346698
A Study Guide for Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf
A Study Guide for Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Epics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Epics for Students for all of your research needs.
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
William Thomas Lowndes
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HWFYEY
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature by William Thomas Lowndes Pdf
Jerusalem Delivered
Torquato Tasso
Author : Torquato Tasso
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0801863236
Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso Pdf
Tasso's masterpiece finally emerges as an English masterpiece.
La Gerusalemme Liberata
Torquato Tasso
Author : Torquato Tasso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Italian literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433085059594
La Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso Pdf
The Jerusalem Delivered of Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso,Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
Author : Torquato Tasso,Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Crusades
ISBN : NYPL:33433067343594
The Jerusalem Delivered of Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso,Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen Pdf
Gender and Genealogy in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata
Marilyn Migiel
Author : Marilyn Migiel
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Genealogy in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015033093769
Gender and Genealogy in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata by Marilyn Migiel Pdf
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11786381
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books by Anonim Pdf
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Author : George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1974-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521200040
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 by George Watson,Ian Roy Willison Pdf
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Jerusalem Delivered
Torquato Tasso
Author : Torquato Tasso
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542788048
Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso Pdf
Jerusalem Delivered Gerusalemme Liberata Torquato Tasso THE COMPLETE 20 CANTOS Jerusalem Delivered is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581, which 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 eight line stanzas grouped into 20 cantos of varying length. The work belongs to the Italian Renaissance tradition of the romantic epic poem, and Tasso frequently borrows plot elements and character types directly from Ariosto's Orlando furioso. Tasso's poem also has elements inspired by the classical epics of Homer and Virgil (especially in those sections of their works that tell of sieges and warfare). One of the most characteristic literary devices in Tasso's poem is the emotional conundrum endured by characters torn between their heart and their duty; the depiction of love at odds with martial valour or honor is a central source of lyrical passion in the poem. TORQUATO TASSO was born at Sorrento on March 11, 1544, and died in Rome on April 25, 1595, aged fifty-one. He belonged to an old family of Bergamo, and was a poet's son. His father Bernardo Tasso, full fifty years old at the time of his son's birth, had then been for thirteen years in the service of Ferrante Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno, and had married in 1536 the beautiful and spiritual Porzia de' Rossi, of the house of the Marquises of Calenzano. Their son Torquato was first educated at schools of the Jesuits in Naples, Rome, and Bergamo. They were the best schools of the time. At eight years old the boy read Greek and Latin, and had begun to write Italian verse. Then he was in Pesaro for a time, sharing the education given to the son of the Duke of Urbino. After this he was for a year in Venice with his father, and then, at the age of thirteen, he was sent to study law at Padua.
The Other Italy
Hermann W. Haller
Author : Hermann W. Haller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802044247
The Other Italy by Hermann W. Haller Pdf
Italy possesses two literary canons, one in the Tuscan language and the other made up of the various dialects of its many regions. The Other Italy presents for the first time an overview of the principal authors and texts of Italy's literary canon in dialect. It highlights the cultivated dialect poetry, drama, and narrative prose since the codification of the Tuscan literary language in the early sixteenth century, when writing in dialect became a deliberate and conscious alternative to the official literary standard. The book offers a panorama of the literary dialects of Italy over five centuries and across the country's regions, shedding light on a profoundly plurilingual and polycentric civilization. As a guide to reading and research, it provides a compendium of literary sources in dialect, arranged by region and accompanied by syntheses of regional traditions with selected textual illustrations. A work of extraordinary importance, The Other Italy was awarded the Modern Language Association of America's Aldo and Jean Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies. It will serve scholars as an indispensable resource book for years to come.
Bernard Quaritch
Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : OXFORD:555060573