The First Crusade's siege of Jerusalem, woven with sorcery, love, and heroism. Tasso's great Italian Renaissance epic.
Books that mention Jerusalem Delivered (3)
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov: “By the way: the other day, Werner compared women to the enchanted forest of which Tasso tells in his "Jerusalem Delivered."”
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez: “the book that could be found between Jerusalem Delivered and Milton's poems on the extreme right-hand side of the second shelf of the bookcases”
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving: “lived round Tasso in his dismal cell at Ferrara, when he conceived the splendid scenes of his Jerusalem;”