The Image of Muslims in Torquato Tasso’s Le Gerusalemme liberata.
This paper examines Italian Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso’s epic poem titled Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered [1581]). Tasso imaginatively narrates events and details from the siege of Antioch and Jerusalem in the First Crusade and compares historical Muslim characters with their Christia...
| Publicado en: | Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 66 - 80 |
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