Gerusalemme liberata (voll. 2)

How wonderful! I can say that I hated it so much during high school and now nearly 25 years later i love it much !! The reading was long and tiring, challenging if not sometimes impossible to understand events under a clear historical and allegorical basis. The story tells the deeds of Geoffrey of Bo Leggi tutto

"De dos mil no hay ya ciento. Él contemplando tanta sangre vertida y tanto muerto, si se está el fuerte pecho lastimando o acaso teme, yo a decir no acierto. Sin mostrar turbación, la voz alzando, Sigamos-grita-al cielo en rumbo cierto de nuestros compañeros el destino, que con su sangre marcan el camino." Leggi tutto

Torquato Tasso truly woke up in the morning, had a wet dream about converting an Arab Muslim woman who was also white for some reason to Christianity, wrote some poetry about it, and then went to sleep. 98% of the plot points are around that level of deeply ridiculous. Also, that guy who personally

I can't sing enough praise for these 20 cantos that Tasso laid down for us in 1581. I already thought that 'Orlando Furioso' was a clear cut masterpiece, and this might just be better (in terms of late Renaissance epic poetry). Glory and tragedy is rendered through poetic stanzas which depict a high Leggi tutto