Goethe asks in Wilhelm Meister whether we know the land where the lemon trees flower, and the light of the Mediterranean glows through Torquato Tasso and the Roman Elegies.

** La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso ( 1575 )

Most classical Italian poems are composed of hendecasyllables ; for example, the major works by Dante, Francesco Petrarca, Ludovico Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso.

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Torquato Tasso in the St. Ann's hospital of Ferrara, by Eugène Delacroix.

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.

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In March 1956 he made one single guest appearance at Vienna's Burgtheater in Goethe's Torquato Tasso.

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 ( 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.

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.

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.

Nevertheless, the strictures of the Classical critics influenced the next great Italian epic, Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata ( 1581 ).

However, poets such as Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso continued to use ottava rima for serious epic poetry.

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.

He also wrote commentaries on St. Paul's Epistle to Philemon, and on the Apologia of Lucius Apuleius as well as a translation into Latin of and Annotazioni ( in Italian ) on Torquato Tasso's epic Gerusalemme liberata.

Armide is the French and English form of the name Armida, a witch in Torquato Tasso's epic poem " Jerusalem Delivered " ( 1580 ).

It was named Olindo, referring to a character in the poem by Torquato Tasso.

La Araucana ’ s successes — and weaknesses — as a poem stem from the uneasy coexistence of characters and situations drawn from Classical sources ( primarily Virgil and Lucan, both translated into Spanish in the 16th century ) and Italian Renaissance poets ( Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso ) with material derived from the actions of contemporary Spaniards and Araucanians.

It has frescoes inspired by Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata

Sorrento was the birthplace of the poet Torquato Tasso, author of the Gerusalemme Liberata.

Other manuscripts include: Francesco di Giorgio's mid-16th century Treatise of Architecture ; Nicholas Stone's two account books covering 1631 – 42, and his son also Nicholas Stone Sketch Book ( France & Italy ) 1648 and Henry Stone's sketch book 1638 ; Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne's The Second Epistle ; James Gibbs's A few short cursory remarks on buildings in Rome ; Joshua Reynolds's two sketches books from Rome ; Torquato Tasso's early manuscript of Gerusalemme Liberata.

Soon, fine editions of classical and respected works followed, such as Homer's works and Gerusalemme Liberata of Torquato Tasso.

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

Exemplary work, such as the English Le Morte d ' Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory ( c. 1408 – 1471 ), the Catalan Tirant lo Blanch, and the Spanish or Portuguese Amadis de Gaula ( 1508 ), spawned many imitators, and the genre was popularly well-received, producing such masterpiece of Renaissance poetry as Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata and other sixteenth-century literary works in the romance genre.

Torquato Tasso # La Gerusalemme Liberata | Jerusalem Delivered, an Heroic Poem, translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoole.

Gluck set the same libretto Philippe Quinault had written for Lully in 1686, based on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ).

At the time, it and the Spanish Amadis de Gaula ( 1508 ), ( also prose ) spawned many imitators, and the genre was popularly well-received, producing such masterpiece of Renaissance poetry as Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata.

La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso.