Gerusalemme Liberata

by Torquato Tasso · 1581

An epic of the First Crusade, where Christian knights besiege Jerusalem amid sorcery, love, and holy war.

Books that mention Gerusalemme Liberata (3)

• Daniel Deronda by George Eliot: “I know nothing of Tasso except the _Gerusalemme Liberata_, which we read and learned by heart at school."”
• The Aspirations of Jean Servien by Anatole France: “I have translated the Gerusalemme Liberata, the immortal masterpiece of Torquato Tasso”
• The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino: “Noted as bandied about in convivial disputes in Don Rodrigo's house as a code of chivalric rules”