Liberation of Jerusalem

''The bitter tragedy of human life—horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance,and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ''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 ...