Torquato Tasso

This translation of Torquato Tasso's Il re Torrismondo, the first to be made directly from the Italian into English, is intended to help those students and scholars who do not command the language of the original text. This translation provides readers with a wider range of the Italian tragedy as a genre; it also allows readers to acquire a deeper awareness of the entire spectrum of the Italian Renaissance in its final brilliance. Tasso's King Torrismondo provides an example of Neo-Aristotelian dramatic theory of the second half of the fifteenth century. It incorporates into the dramatic genre elements of the epic lyric poem. Tasso's language can also be studied as an example of "imitation" of Virgil, Dante, Petrarch, and Tasso's own epic. Finally, Tasso's Torrismondo affords us an opportunity of comparative analysis of French, English, and Spanish literature in the development of tragedy as a European genre.

"In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The siege of the city is played out a longside a magical romance of love and sacrifice, in which the Christian knight Rinaldo succumbs to the charms of the pagan sorceress Armida, and the warrior maiden Clorinda inspires a fatal passion in the Christian Tancred." "Tasso's masterpiece left its mark on writers from Spenser and Milton to Goethe and Byron, and inspired countless painters and composers. This is the first English translation in modern times that faithfully reflects both the sense and the verse form of the original. Max Wickert's fine rendering is introduced by Mark Davie, who places Tasso's poem in the context of his life and times and points to the qualities that have ensured its lasting impact on Western culture."--Jacket.

Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

This CD contains the full text of 208 books -- works of history and literature written in and about the Sixteenth Century, including works of Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Marguerite de Navarre, Montaigne, Rabelais, Martin Luther, Paracelsus, Durer, Ariosto, Machiavelli, Tasso, Cellini, Erasmus, and Cervantes, among many others. ,P. Intended for use with Windows PCs, these books are in plain-text format, organized for easy access.

Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

A New English Verse Translation with Facing Italian Text, Critical Introduction and Notes

"Presents Tasso's 120 love poems for Lucrezia Bendidio for first time in English with verse translations and original Italian on facing pages. Introduction outlines the poems' arrangements and analyzes key themes. Includes detailed notes by both Tasso and Wickert, plus bibliography and indexes"--Provided by publisher.

Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

translated into English Spenserian verse from the Italian of Tasso : together with a life of the author, interspersed with translations of his verses to the Princess Leonora of Este, and a list of English crusaders