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Jerusalem Delivered
Jerusalem Delivered, also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem ( ; ), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. The poem is composed of 1,917 stanzas in ottava rima (15,336 hendecasyllabic lines), grouped into twenty cantos of varying length.
The work belongs to the Italian Renaissance tradition of the romantic epic poem
Shakespeare provides a whole range of military characters, from cool-headed and clear-sighted generals, to captains, and common soldiery. Ludovico Ariosto's romance epic, "Orlando Furioso" (1516), is a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato", which describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. Torquato Tasso's poem "Jerusalem Delivered" ("La Gerusalemme liberata", 1580), depicts a highly imaginative version