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"Daglinterni avoltoj, sdegno e dolore."
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Jerusalem DeliveredPer la fe, per la patria il tutto lice. — Jerusalem Delivered
"Per la fe, per la patria il tutto lice."
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Jerusalem Delivered
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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. Tasso began work on the poem in the mid-1560s. Originally, it bore the title Il Goffredo. It was com
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"Già la notte oscura Avea tutti del giorno i raggj spenti; E con loblío dogni nojosa cura Ponea tregua alle lagrime, ai lamenti."
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"Whoever has a relish for the beauty, the art, the interest of a poetic composition, for richness of detail, for truth of character, for generosity of sentiment, should make the Jerusalem Delivered his favourite study. It is in a particular manner the poem of the soldier: it breathes valour and glory, and, as I have elsewhere observed, it seems to have been written upon a buckler in the midst of camps."
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"Là corre il mondo, ove più versi Di sue dolcezze il lusinghier Parnaso; E che l vero condito in molli versi, I più schivi allettando ha persuaso."
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"Cosi all egro fanciul porgiamo aspersi Di soave licor gli orli del vaso; Succhi ainari, ingannato, in tanto ei bene, E da linganno iuo, vita ricere."
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"Giunta è tua gloria al sommo e per lo innanzi Fuggir le dubbie guerre a te conviene, Ch ove tu vinca sol di stato avvanzi Nè tua gloria maggior quindi diviene; Mal Imperio acquiitato e prefo dianzi El onor perdi, se l contrario avviene."
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