{"product_id":"jerusalem-delivered-gerusalemme-liberata-1","title":"Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata)","description":"\"Esolen's translation of Tasso is a genuine intellectual and poetic achievement. The accompanying scholarly apparatus makes this the most valuable edition of Tasso available. Esolen has thought through with care what readers need to make their way through the immensity of the poem.\" -- Thomas P. Roche\n\nLate 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.\n\nGerusalemme 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.\n\nAnthony 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 English verse as powerful and clear as Tasso's Italian. Tasso's masterpiece finally emerges as an English masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0801863236\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0801863236.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Tasso, Torquato|Esolen, Anthony M.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41576439382074,"sku":"DBV.0801863236.G","price":23.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0801863236-0_80ca483b-a39d-48cf-8c5a-92c264e5cad4.jpg?v=1785725565","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/jerusalem-delivered-gerusalemme-liberata-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}