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ID: 901002205
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002205
Record Type: Literature

Gerusalemme liberata (epic poem, Tasso, 1581)

Note: Epic poem about the First Crusade, where Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. Comprises over 1,900 stanzas in ottava rima, grouped into 20 cantos.

Display Date: first published in 1581

Names:
Gerusalemme liberata (epic poem, Tasso, 1581) (preferred,Italian-P,D)
Jerusalem Delivered (epic poem, Tasso, 1581) (English-P,D)

Hierarchical Position:
Literature and Performing Arts (P)
....<Named written and performed works> (P)
........<Literary works: Poetry> (P)
............Gerusalemme liberata (epic poem, Tasso, 1581) (I)
Related Iconography:
is source for .... Story of Rinaldo and Armida
..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Literary themes and narratives, Story of Rinaldo and Armida (Italian narrative)) [901002203]
is source for .... Rinaldo
..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Literary characters, Rinaldo (fictional knight, First Crusade)) [901002206]
is source for .... Armida
..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Literary characters, Armida (fictional character, First Crusade)) [901002207]
topic is .... First Crusade
..........(Named Events, Middle Eastern history, Crusades (Middle Eastern-European history, 1095-1291), First Crusade (Middle Eastern-European history, 1095-1099 )) [901001480]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... epic poem
.....(narrative poems, poems by form, poems, poetry and poems, genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
author is .... Tasso, Torcuato (Italian writer, 1544-1595)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
located in .... Jerusalem
.....(Jerusalem, Israel, Asia) (TGN)

Sources:
Gerusalemme liberata (epic poem, Tasso, 1581)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Tasso," accessed 1 August 2019
Jerusalem Delivered (epic poem, Tasso, 1581)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................Holman and Harmon, Handbook to Literature (1986)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................ Holman and Harmon, Handbook to Literature (1986)

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