Commissioned for an unknown occasion Salieri's Armida was based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ) and premiered on 2 June 1771.

The Renaissance literary men and poets Torquato Tasso ( author of Jerusalem Delivered ), Ludovico Ariosto ( author of the romantic epic poem Orlando Furioso ) and Matteo Maria Boiardo ( author of the grandiose poem of chivalry and romance Orlando Innamorato ), lived and worked at the court of Ferrara during the 15th and 16th century.

Morgante ( c. 1483 ) by Luigi Pulci, Orlando innamorato ( 1495 ) by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando furioso ( 1516 ) by Ludovico Ariosto, and Jerusalem Delivered ( 1581 ) by Torquato Tasso are all indebted to the French narrative material ( the Pulci, Boiardo and Ariosto poems are founded on the legends of the paladins of Charlemagne, and particularly, of Roland, translated as " Orlando ").

The picture illustrates an episode from Tasso's heroic crusader poem " Jerusalem Delivered " ( 1580 ), in which the Christian knights Carlo and Ubaldo confront a dragon in their attempt to rescue Rinaldo from a pagan sorceress

Renaud de Montauban should not be confused with Rinaldo, the son of Bertoldo and reputed founder of the House of Este in Torquato Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered ( 1580 ), though this second character is made out to be a descendant of the original paladin's sister Bradamante.

( Jerusalem Delivered XVII: 81 ).

Accolti wrote in Latin a history of the First Crusade, entitled De Bello a Christianis contra Barbaros gesto pro Christi Sepulchro et Judaea recuperandis libri IV ( 1464 ), or " On the War carried on by the Christians against the Barbarians, for the Recovery of Christ's Sepulchre, and of Judea ", which is said to have furnished Torquato Tasso with the historical basis for his Jerusalem Delivered.

The libretto was written by Philippe Quinault, based on Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ).

In this country those who still wrote epic poems, following the rules set by Torquato Tasso in his work Discorsi del poema eroico ( Discussions about the Epic Poems ) and realized in his masterwork, the Jerusalem Delivered, were felt as antiquated.

The story of love, battle and redemption set at the time of the First Crusade is loosely based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ), and its staging involved many original and vivid effects.

Another Renaissance poet, Torquato Tasso borrowed many of Boiardo's epic conventions, although his Jerusalem Delivered does not use the Orlando frame.

The Classical-era poet Virgil ( Publius Vergilius Maro, 70 – 19 BC ) continued this literary narrative technique in the Aeneid, which is part of the Greek literary tradition of imitating Homer, medias in res narration further continued in early modern poetry with Jerusalem Delivered ( 1581 ), by Torquato Tasso, Paradise Lost ( 1667 ), by John Milton, and generally in Modernist literature.

To Overbeck was assigned, in a room 5 m square, the illustration of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered ; and of eleven compositions occupying one entire wall, is the Meeting of Godfrey de Bouillon and Peter the Hermit.

He made a translation of the first five cantos of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered ( 1594 ), which was more correct than that of Edward Fairfax.

His translation of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, for which he is best known, is considered a masterpiece, one of the comparatively few translations which in themselves are literature.

Hoole translated Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered ( 1763 ), and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso ( 1773 – 83 ), as well as other works from the Italian.

Robert Southey recalled that Hoole's Jerusalem Delivered was " the first book he ever possessed ," apart from a set of sixpenny children's books.

Tancred appears as a character in Torquato Tasso's 16th-century poem Jerusalem Delivered, in which he is portrayed as an epic hero and given a fictional love interest, the pagan warrior-maiden Clorinda.

Jerusalem Delivered ( La Gerusalemme liberata ) 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 Catholic knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem.

Poussin's illustration to Jerusalem Delivered ( 1630s ).

* Poussin's illustration to Jerusalem Delivered ( 1630s ): Two versions of the " Tancred and Erminia " subject exist from c. 1630.

* Paolo Finoglio-The pictorial series Jerusalem Delivered ( 1640 )

* Jerusalem Delivered, English translation ( The Online Medieval and Classical Library )

During his reign, Jerusalem became more closely allied with the Byzantine Empire, and the two states launched an unsuccessful invasion of Egypt.

Hussein had protested that the Arabs of Beirut would greatly oppose isolation from the Arab state or states, but did not bring up the matter of Jerusalem or Palestine.

He states that the documents probably stemmed from various libraries in Jerusalem, kept safe in the desert from the Roman invasions.

The most radical reconstruction states that the Jews originated as a " mixed multitude " of settlers sent to Jerusalem by the Persians, where they concocted a past for themselves.

Muslim exegesis preserves a tradition, which parallels that of the Hebrew Bible, which states that Hezekiah was the king that ruled over Jerusalem during Isaiah's time.

Article 3 of the Basic Law of the Palestinian Authority, which was ratified in 2002 by the Palestinian National Authority and serves as an interim constitution, states that " Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine.

* 1950 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

At the end of Book II, Chapter XIII Origen disagrees with Josephus ' placement of blame for the destruction of Jerusalem on the death of James, and states that it was due to the death of Jesus, not James.

However, John Painter states that placing the blame for the siege of Jerusalem on the death of James is perhaps an early Christian invention that predates both Origen and Eusebius and that it likely existed in the traditions to which they were both exposed.

Painter states that it is likely that Eusebius may have obtained his explanation of the siege of Jerusalem from Origen.

Painter discusses the role of Ananus and the background to the passage, and states that after being deposed as High Priest for killing James and being replaced by Jesus the son of Damnaeus, Ananus had maintained his influence within Jerusalem through bribery.

To the north were the three other crusader states founded during and after the First Crusade, the County of Edessa ( 1097 – 1144 ), the Principality of Antioch ( 1098 – 1268 ), and the County of Tripoli ( 1109 – 1289 ), which were all independent but closely tied to Jerusalem.

Fulk was then faced with a new and more dangerous enemy: the atabeg Zengi of Mosul, who had taken control of Aleppo and had set his sights on Damascus as well ; the union of these three states would have been a serious blow to the growing power of Jerusalem.

A brief intervention in 1137 – 1138 by the Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus, who wished to assert imperial suzerainty over all the crusader states, did nothing to stop the threat of Zengi ; in 1139 Damascus and Jerusalem recognized the severity of the threat to both states, and an alliance was concluded which halted Zengi's advance.

Jerusalem collected money through tribute payments, first from the coastal cities which had not yet been captured, and later from other neighbouring states such as Damascus and Egypt, which the crusaders could not conquer directly.

The person executed may have been attached to the cross by rope, though nails are mentioned in a passage by the Judean historian Josephus, where he states that at the Siege of Jerusalem ( 70 ), " the soldiers out of rage and hatred, nailed those they caught, one after one way, and another after another, to the crosses, by way of jest.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states, with Moslem states ( in shades of green ) in 1135 during the reign of Melisende.

The result of this breach of treaty was that Damascus would never trust the Crusader states again, and the loss of a sympathetic Muslim state was a blow from which later monarchs of Jerusalem could not recover.

In 1179, William was one of the delegates from Jerusalem and the other crusader states at the Third Lateran Council ; among the others were Heraclius, archbishop of Caesarea, Joscius, bishop of Acre and William's future successor in Tyre, the bishops of Sebastea, Bethlehem, Tripoli, and Jabala, and the abbot of Mount Sion.

More importantly, the proposal called for the creation of two states, while Jerusalem and Bethlehem would be placed under United Nations control.

A classical rabbinic work, Avoth de-Rabbi Natan, states: " One time, when Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai was walking in Jerusalem with Rabbi Yehosua, they arrived at where the Temple in Jerusalem now stood in ruins.

It called for the creation of Arab and Jewish states no later than 1 October 1948, with Jerusalem as corpus separatum under an international regime to be administered by the U. N. with the Trusteeship Council being the designated body in this regard.